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Word: tetuan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes of the Rock | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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