Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
Color Question. In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...
...Money. In Columbus, Ohio, a race horse named Depression was auctioned to meet his unpaid feed bill...
Miracle of Healing. Saint Frances Xavier's best known miracle occurred in March 1921. A nurse at the Cabrini-founded Columbus Hospital in Manhattan accidentally washed out the eyes of an infant named Peter Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors...
...when he was discharged from the U.S. Army last November, Davis forswore his native Columbus, Ohio, rushed back to Stoke, got a job as a biscuit salesman. He married his wartime sweetheart, 19-year-old Alma Taylor, and prepared to settle down to life in the crammed streets behind curtains only fortnightly white. He even wanted to become a subject of the King. But Britain's Home Office was not looking for immigrants. It declared that Davis was using up needed food and clothing, and ordered him to leave the realm...