Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus discovered the island, Puerto Rico at last elected its own governor.* Last week's election brought neither surprises nor upsets; somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, leader of the Popular Democratic Party, rolled to victory with 62% of the 629,000 votes cast...
...same year that Columbus discovered the New World, a painter named Ch'iu Ying put the finishing touches on a little world of his own. Last week Ch'iu's world, a 30-ft. silk scroll, was seen for the first time in the U.S. when it was unrolled at Southern California's Pomona College. It proved to be one of the real treasures of the. Ming Dynasty. The property of a Chinese collector who kept it in his home, it was first put on public exhibition in Nanking three years ago, where George C, Marshall...
HARRY FRANKEN Columbus, Ohio...
Xerography's inventor, Chester F. Carlson, 42, a New York patent attorney and physicist, produced his first Xerographic image in 1938. Company after company turned down the process until, in 1944, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio finally took on the expensive job of perfecting...
Nevertheless, here & there through history, men had speculated about the mind's disorders. Paracelsus, born the year after Columbus discovered America, came to a conclusion about the dual nature of the mind that today's psychiatrists have very little quarrel with. Wrote Paracelsus...