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Word: spaniards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla, able draughtsman and muralist, to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S. Artist Quintanilla will have 40 to 50 pupils, who will help him paint, on wet plaster in the Liberal Arts Building Auditorium, a real fresco, possibly of Don Quixote in a modern setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Residence | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Germans, two Filipinos, two Czochs, two Chinese, an Austrian, and a Spaniard-this is not a roll-call of a Singapore bar, but he roster of foreign students who live at the International Club, Harvard's unique experiment in cooperative living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No War at International Club In spite of Its Six Nationalities | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...contradicts both them and himself. Ingenious Author de Madariaga culls through the lot. His best technical evidence: 1) Columbus' Spanish resembled the language of the 14th rather than the 15th Century (suggesting that he learned it from his parents) ; 2) his mistakes in Latin were those of a Spaniard, not an Italian or Portuguese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Discoverer? | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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