Word: colegio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countries marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
Across Lima's Plaza San Martin, blue-sweatered students bore a pine coffin wrapped in the Peruvian flag. Watching crowds sang the national anthem as the procession moved toward the Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Lima's largest (7,000 students) public high school. As the gates of the school chapel swung open, a bugler sounded taps. A senior spoke briefly. Heriberto Avellanada Beltrán, he said, had died for liberty...
...first: Director Elizabeth Mason of Santiago's Colegio Americano para Senoritas, also a U.S. Protestant missionary (Methodist...
...Mexico City's Colegio Roosevelt,* twelve-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez had a composition to write. Like the rest of the pupils in the sixth grade, she would write on el Señor President Roosevelt, Mexico's gran amigo, on the first anniversary of his death (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Guadalupe did her twelve-year-old best...
...produce dealer, at 18 had his own small prospering business in tropical Cordoba. In his twenties he was star salesman in Mexico City for General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, and sold the firm's largest order in Mexico: material for Mexico's West Point-Colegio Militar de Mexico...