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Word: canoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano and Gonzalo discovered before long that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutiny With Magellan | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

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