Word: serra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted themselves luridly before going out in the evening. When they disliked someone, they cut out his heart and sent the rest of him back to his family. This picture describes, in handsome color and costume, an early attempt to civilize the region, as made by Father Junipero Serra, the first missionary to the Southern Californians...
Clarence Henry Haring '07, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American history and Economics, emeritus, has received the Serra Award for his contribution to inter-American culture...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...
...picture first came to light in London 33 years ago. An Italian nobleman, the Marchese Guido Serra di Cassano, was decorating a town house by buying wholesale lots of pictures at a few pounds apiece. Browsing about one run-down little antique shop, he spied a medium-sized (29 in. by 24½ in.) canvas, showing an aged man in dark brown coat and dark velvet hat, staring moodily out at the world with large, pained eyes. The dealer was glad to include the picture in the sale for an extra $25. Then the marquis had it cleaned, and experts...
...Omaha-born, Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful, Billings' complex of tunnels, pumps, penstocks and turbines at Serra do Mar produced more electricity than any but the world's two or three biggest dams and made possible the industrial prodigies that Paulistas have since accomplished...