Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries Vespucci has been considered the undeserving recipient of an honor which rightfully belonged to Columbus. Emerson called Vespucci a thief. Now Biographer Pohl rises to point out that Amerigo Vespucci was actually a man of whom Americans can be proud: one of the greatest in an age of great seamen...
Married. Captain Don S. Gentile, 23, dark-haired, dimpled, Mustang fighter ace, credited with shooting down 23 enemy planes; and Isabella Masdea, 21, his home-town sweetheart; in a cross-sabred, military ceremony; in Columbus, Ohio...
...Columbus, Ohio was the football capital of the U.S. At stake was the Big Nine championship and, just possibly, a California Rose Bowl trip...
...Bishop of Columbus, Ohio: Monsignor Michael Joseph Ready (rhymes with speedy), general secretary of Washington's National Catholic Welfare Conference since 1936. As a Catholic lobbyist, he opposed conscription, denounced the Spanish Loyalists, distrusted Russia...
...Columbus, Ohio, 56,380 watched unbeaten Ohio State and its great halfback, 23-year-old dental student Les Horvath, trip Indiana, 21-to-7, and head toward the Big Ten championship...