Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monterrey had known for five days that it was to have an important visitor. As Franklin Roosevelt rode through the pennant-bedecked streets, señoritas threw flowers and confetti from the balconies. That night, he and Avila Camacho sat down to a seven-course dinner. While Eleanor Roosevelt tried her newly learned Spanish on Señora Camacho, the two Presidents conversed through an interpreter. Then they rose to address their countries by radio. Their speeches were filled with Good Neighborliness, but nothing much else...
...quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente por la buena es negativo" (That which is not obtained by good will is negative...
...such a-large-scale seminar system is impractical in a college where the enrollment and the curriculum require large courses. Not even Harvard could afford or find the professors necessary for such individual instruction, and where instructors are of the calibre of the average Harvard section man, conferences per se can never succeed. A greater emphasis on the importance and quality of section work is only a partial answer; a better one is to make the lecture system a real presentation of ideas and not a mere reiteration of fact...
Imagine wasting over a full page on such arrant trash! Who in tarnation cares whether Señor Dali has a secret life or whether he has any life...
...Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) dives headfirst into a Technicolored splash of kicking señoritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...