Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocks of East Indian pepper-the most mportant spice-will last two or three years. The romantic spices of the East cinnamon, cloves, mace and nutmeg), which Columbus sought, still reach the U.S., but only in dubious dribbles. Others are obtainable in the West Indies or Mexico. But even to uncritical U.S. palates, one spice is no substitute for another...
WILLIAM R. PARKER Department of English The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio...
...Albany, Christopher Columbus, a waiter, failed to get into the Navy, but waited his turn in the draft. His order number...
...Longhorns were descendants of those Spanish cattle which Columbus brought into the West on his second voyage. They evolved in the Mexican wilderness, perfected themselves in Texas. They had racehorse legs and tails that dragged the ground and defter noses than deer, being able to scent water at ten miles...
...Walt Whitman saw his country lying on the road between Europe and Asia. The great explorers, from Columbus on, had been turned back by the American continents; but the Good Grey Poet could see mankind spreading out over the prairies, crossing the Western mountains, reaching the shores of the Pacific and sailing over it to fulfill the dream that had always haunted Europe. He wrote...