Word: caravel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...
...which reason people do well to give more credence to their prophets than to their logicians. What can be done and what cannot be done seems, after the expeditions of many years, to be fairly determined; but no sooner is it so than someone is born who borrows a caravel from his Queen and pays her back with a continent, throws an army over the Alps, or outstrips Time with the fleetness of his heels...