Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twice as long; yet the Clipper carried double her usual load of men and mails for the U. S. Reason: instead of carrying extra fuel to buck wintry, 50-mile westerlies, the plane coasted along on a firm east wind. It was the trade wind, friend of mariners since Columbus...
Superlative number two is Roscoe McRae, who plays tenor sax with the Jones Brothers' band at the Savoy on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Now the Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with...
...scattered Redskin tribal groups of North America had very little communication with each other before the white man came; 2) U. S. Indian culture has been blown this way & that by the encroachment of white civilization. Though U. S. Indians made pottery, peace pipes, masks, sculpture and baskets before Columbus' day, many of their most typical later arts were based on materials (beadwork, silver, etc.) introduced by white settlers...
...when the shrill horn of plenty was heard in the rest of the land, did little to cheer the literary consciousness of the South. In those years Carson Mc-Cullers grew up in Columbus, Ga. with a hopeless passion for good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...
Hyperion was the 35th British destroyer lost outright since the war began. The irony of her loss was that her biggest exploit was catching up, off the Virginia coast one cold day a little more than a year ago, with the German liner Columbus. She, too, was sunk...