Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploring Columbian sites in the Azores, the expedition plans to backtrack Columbus to Portugal and Spain, and thence back across the Atlantic again to Central America, ending about February 1, 1940. Professor Morison's group is resailing the routes of Columbus in order to make a definite estimate of the explorer as a seaman...
...remembers the Chicago World's Fair-the Fair before the last-in 1893, has forgotten Frederick William MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. It was the largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales...
...moppets-stimulated by Chicago's Columbian Exposition and promotional propaganda of the Youth's Companion-first chanted these immortal words on the first official Columbus Day, in 1892. For over 40 years, however, there has been no certainty who wrote them...
...claims, little attention is paid. In company with Mrs. Fish and the Fish's 13-year-old son, Hammy, and dignitaries of Church & State, the U. S. Congressmen were feted, shown about spick & span Ciudad Trujillo, finally were invited to the Cathedral to view their host's Columbian relics...
...other reversals in lesser cases (Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. Inc.; Sands Manufacturing Co.) made NLRB's Supreme Court score to date: 14 victories; four defeats...