Word: silva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armed drivers had better restrict their activities to the sofa or the back seat if the safety of the roads is to be preserved, in the opinion of Dr. Harry R. de Silva. He has recently joined the staff to the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research and will direct a year's study on the cause and cure of accidents from the viewpoint of the individual driver...
Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...
...Theodore Roosevelt was moving out of the White House, a Brazilian army engineer named Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, running a telegraph line through the untracked fastnesses of central Brazil, glimpsed the headwaters of an unmapped river that flowed he knew not whither. He called it Rio da Dúvida-"River of Doubt...
Numerous expeditions have been made to the ancient mining town and the principal work at present is in cleaning the debris from former visitors in preparation for excavation on the site. Accompanying Professor Lake are Richard F. S. Starr, Research Fellow of Fogg Art Museum, and Mrs. Silva Lake, a former Guggonheim Fellow...
Cheering like wild Indians last week, the half-breeds who did most of the digging roared a welcome to Minister of Agriculture Silva. Said he: "The magnificent artificial lake you have created impounds, I am told, 115,000,000 cubic metres of water. . . . This should end forever fears of the ravages of drought in your great valley from which Chilean produce goes forth" to all the world...