Word: untill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last year, Puerto Rico's Governors were appointed by the U.S. President, subject to Senate confirmation. Judges of the island's Supreme Court are still presidential appointees, but Puerto Ricans feel that they took a long step ahead in the democratic process when a new U.S. law...
Suburbia. Their first house was on Staten Island, where they met Edwin Markham and formed a friendship that endured until Markham's death. Muñoz' translation of The Man with the Hoe is still regarded as the authoritative Spanish version.
City & Country. At the time, Muñoz considered himself a Socialist; as early as 1920 he had joined the Puerto Rican Socialist Party which, by & large, was a collection of sincere but ineffective labor reformers. When, to his disgust, its leaders tied themselves up in a coalition with the...
Dr. Richardson has tried his test 1,000 times. At first, before he perfected the technique, there were a few "false positive" errors. In a later series of 467 tests (235 pregnant, 232 not), there were no errors. Any competent pathologist, he says, can make the test as soon as...
The Mayo doctors cautiously said that it was too early to use even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not...