Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing Dr. Underwood misses is his Korean hunting trips. In the winter he and his twin sons used to go into the wilds, hunt tigers and wild boars. Another Underwood hobby: early Korean naval history. In last month's Yachting Dr. Underwood has an article on a 16th Century naval battle when the Japanese attempted a Pearl Harbor on the Korean port of Fusan. The Koreans destroyed half the 500 Japanese ships...
...smoothly, as if drifting down a river, toward the day of battle." Thus Raymond Clapper wrote last week from mid-Pacific. Later, in a Naval air collision on his day of battle in the Marshalls, death came to the stocky, stooped, 51-year-old columnist. He was the 16th U.S. newsman to die in the harness of a war correspondent...
Atolls of Empire. Until World War II, history brushed by the Marshalls. Portuguese and Spanish sea dogs noted them in the 16th Century, quickly forgot them. In 1788 two British merchantmen, the Charlotte under Captain Thomas Gilbert and the Scarborough under Captain John Marshall, skirted and named for each other the Gilbert and Marshall atolls...
...first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...
...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however...