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  • Jaime Carvallo, a government psychologist who is working with the miners and their families, said he is fairly sanguine about the miners 'prognosis, partly because the men were never abandoned by those above ground.

    Writing Home, 'New' Miners Emerge Matt Moffett 2010

  • Rengifo (1592) and Carvallo (1602) interpret ingenio as furor poeticus

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • Historia de las ideas estéticas in España (Madrid, 1962), Vol. II: Huarte, p. 141; Herrera, p. 71; Rengifo, Carvallo, pp. 218f.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • In 1787 Carvallo discovered the very important fact that metal plates when insulated always acquire slight charges of electricity; following up those two important discoveries of Bennet and Carvallo, Nicholson in 1788 constructed an apparatus having two disks of metal insulated and fixed in the same plane.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various

  • His success with Captain Carvallo led to a long career writing for theatre, radio, film and television, but nothing clicked with the public in the way that his merry study of wartime truths had.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • The playwright Denis Cannan, who has died aged 92, was best known for writing the comedy Captain Carvallo, which lit up the West End in 1950 and enabled him to give up his first career as a repertory actor.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Instead of the detachment of Captain Carvallo, this time there was anger in Cannan's writing, voiced mainly in the production by Glenda Jackson.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Captain Carvallo burst on the London scene like a sparkling fountain in a grey desert of stagnant theatre.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • The story of a philandering young army officer, Captain Carvallo was a refreshing play of ideas, joyfully offbeat and absurd.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Lamaze finished clear in 51.62 seconds, with Swiss rider Pius Schwizer a close second with his 9-year-old Carvallo daughter, Carlina, who stopped the clock at 51.86.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2010

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