Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After over a year of exploration of in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, six months of which were too rainy to allow digging, the men located the 175,000,000 year old fossil bed in the red clay footbills of the Brazilian Platean. It is believed to be the most significant American deposit yet found of the fauna of the Triassic period, critical in the development of the ancestors of the dinosaurs and mamals...
...India rubber is called caoutchouc (pronounced coochook), an English word of Tupian (Brazilian) Indian origin. *Common stockholders received their last dividends...
...recruit in years is Bidú Sayáo, slim, slick and 30, who turned up in Manhattan last spring to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony and was quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin...
...unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President help the C. I. 0. lick General Motors and was turned down (see p. 11). On another arrived Dr. Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the President's South American friends, who had flown up to attend the inauguration but was delayed by storm in Santo Domingo. In quick succession followed other important matters: the President asked Congress to extend the expiring Reciprocal Trade Act; Chairman Pittman...
Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, will visit the University at 10 o'clock this morning, according to information received last night from Washington. He will be escorted on his tour of Cambridge by Jerome D. Greene '96, director of the Tercentenary, emeritus, and secretary of the Corporation...