Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last winter the "beautiful she-pupils" of Vassar enjoyed the teachings of an exchange professor, Dr. Jorge Costa Neves, of the University of Brazil. So stimulating were his courses in the Portuguese language and Brazilian civilization that Vassar's president, tart Sarah Blanding, seldom missed a lecture herself. Now back in Rio for a year before returning to Vassar, able Jorge Costa loves to expound on how the U.S. looks to a Brazilian...
Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...
Hope for a Future. The one hope for the Amazon is to grow rubber trees in plantations. Henry Ford tried it and failed. His plantations succumbed to leaf rot. When Ford sold out for a nominal price to the Brazilian government, the Instituto Agronômico took over where he left off. Today Dr. Camargo has turned Fordlandia into a plantation for growing hardwood trees and cacao, and breeding water buffalo. But 90 miles downstream at Belterra, he has 2,225,000 healthy rubber trees growing...
...years, with driving energy, grey, balding Dr. Fanstone, missionary for the Evangelical Union of South America, has been tending the ills of the people of the great Brazilian heartland state of Goiaz. Today, his gleaming, 130-bed hospital is one of the show places of the booming frontier capital of Anapolis, 875 miles northwest of Rio. But 58-year-old Dr. Jim can remember when he did appendectomies in his own kitchen...
...unseasonably humid Brazilian fall, the men sweated damply in woolen suits or sported open-necked shirts and cruise clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...