Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranged from eight weeks to 14 years, almost a third had cancers, the rest benign growths. Last year, the ward provided its 68 patients with sliding boards, play tent, electric trains, a miniature fireplace with space for stockings at Christmastime. Last week, the children were busily painting pictures for Columbus...
...veteran of World War I, but the setting up of the Division itself entailed a departure so drastic that Colonel Pfeil and Adjutant General Adams refused to talk about it. The change was in the status of such organizations as the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army, 26 other welfare agencies which elbowed each other...
...fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus, he was able to tell the exact year when the wood...
Georgia. With a rolling barrage of righteous Cracker votes, red-gallused, spellbinding Eugene ("I'm for peace") Talmadge (who was beaten for the U. S. Senate two years ago) mowed down Dairyman Columbus Roberts, Attorney Abit Nix on his sure-fire advance to a third term as Governor. With his forelock and victory both in his eye, New Deal Baiter Talmadge roared: "I am glad Georgia...
...contractor who used to play halfback at West Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked at him. That was a mistake. Two-hundred-and-twenty-five...