Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 53The Union, 1921 - America |
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Page 245 - Amar, eso es todo ! ¡ querer, todo es eso ! Los mundos brotaron al eco de un beso, y un beso es el astro, y un beso es el rayo, y un beso la tarde y un beso la aurora, y un beso los trinos del ave canora que glosa las fiestas divinas de mayo !" "Yo quise a la Patria por débil y mustia, la Patria me quiso con toda su angustia y entonces nos dimos los dos un gran beso: los besos de amores son siempre fecundos, un beso de amores ha creado los mundos. Amar ... eso es todo ; querer . . . todo es eso...
Page 266 - Hoy también de ese techo se levanta blanco-azulado el humo del hogar; ya ese fuego lo enciende mano extraña ya es ajena la casa paternal. La miro cual proscrito que se aleja ve de la tarde a la rosada luz la amarilla vereda que serpea de su montaña en el lejano azul. Son un prisma las lágrimas que prestan al pasado su mágico color; al través de la lluvia son más bellas esas colinas...
Page 430 - Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America; Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association; National Child Health Council...
Page 572 - Bull. 0 4 orders for the required amount among the farms and each farm overseer in turn makes his allotment to the individual sections and to the cutters, and sees that everything is in order to start the cutting at daylight the following day. Rigid inspection is enforced by the farm overseer, foremen, selectors and travelling inspectors, from the time the cutting commences until the fruit is loaded on railway cars. Special trains of empty banana cars...
Page 131 - Some authorities believe that the presence of tin is accidental, "since it is found in greatest quantities in those implements which require it least.
Page 426 - Hispanic society of America. Catalogue of Mexican maiolica belonging to Mrs. Robert W. De Forest, exhibited by the Hispanic society of America, February 18 to March 19, 1911, by Edwin Atlee Barber.
Page 25 - ... our pride in the ancient friendships which have bound us to both the country of your adoption and that of your nativity. We exalt anew our pride that we have stood with them in the struggle for civilization, and have touched elbows with them in the march of progress. It has been your fortune, Mme. Curie, to accomplish an immortal work for humanity. We are not without understanding of the trials and sacrifices which have been the price of your achievement. We know something of the fervid purpose...
Page 25 - I have been commissioned to present to you this little phial of radium. To you we owe our knowledge and possession of it, and so to you we give it, confident that in your possession it will be the means further to unveil the fascinating secrets of nature, to widen the field of useful knowledge, to alleviate suffering among the children of man. Take it to use as your wisdom shall direct and your purpose of service shall incline you. Be sure that we esteem it but a small earnest of the sentiments for...
Page 581 - Meats are essentially protein foods, and as such are more adapted to the development of tissue than to the quick production of heat, while the banana, on the other hand, is less a tissue-forming substance, but is incomparably more effective in supplying the heatgiving materials. In a crude way we might say that the proteins are the foods which make good the losses due to wear and tear in the machinery of the body, while the carbohydrates are the foods which keep the machinery in motion and do work.
Page 572 - When the fruit arrives at the railroad, one of two methods is employed in transferring it to the railway cars, the particular method depending on the quantity of fruit assembled at one point, the location, and the track facilities. Where possible, the trams are run to sidings, or spurs, on the main line, and the fruit is passed from the tram-cars to the waiting railway cars as fast as it comes out from the farm. In other cases, the bunches are placed alongside the track on platforms of turf or wood,...