Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in the show cases is an example of the first book published in the Western Hemisphere, which was printed by Juan Pablos, a Spaniard who set up shop in Mexico in 1539 and published his first work a year later...
...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...
Antonio Longoria is a scientific amphibian. A short, myopic Spaniard of 49 who lives in Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Longoria is at home both in the real world of technological utility and the dream world of Wellsian fantasy. He has devised some ingenious welding techniques, feathered his nest comfortably from his welding patents. He is also a persistent and well-publicized ballyhooer of the "death ray" machine he claims to have invented (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Says he, this machine can kill cats and dogs, bring down pigeons on the wing, at ranges up to four miles...
...fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks on an inconsequential play-by-play account of Shafter's insular campaign and Dewey's tugboat race to Manila...
...answers largely depend on the character of Francisco Franco, and last week as Spain was about to begin another chapter in her long history, the plump, enigmatic little man who will boss it-strangely colorless for a Spaniard-and the men with whom he has surrounded himself attracted the world's curiosity...