Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since they sailed last August, Samuel E. Morison '07 professor of History, and his Columbus Expedition set foot on the soil of the United States. They docked in New York this morning aboard the United Fruit liner Veragua...
Sailing with the avowed intent to evaluate the discoverer Christopher Columbus as a navigator and sailor, the expedition for the last five months has been following his exploring courses into the Carribbean Sea and along the coast of South and Central America...
...expedition started last August 28, as the eight members of the expedition and four others sailed aboard the Capitana, 147 foot ketch named after Columbus's ship on his third voyage of discovery. Horta in the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal were the first ports of call. In Lisbon the party met the second ship of the expedition, the Mary Otis, a 45 foot ketch and sailed on to Cadiz and Madeira...
...accuse Biographer de Madariaga of anti-Semitism would perhaps be easy-if it were not equally possible to call him pro-Semitic. His Columbus, opaque to biographers for over 400 years, is a preincarnation of Don Quixote, an epic figure of epic contradictions, sailing "across a sea of errors to the shore of truth." Even de Madariaga does not think his own view is the one & only. So he says, (quoting an old Spanish proverb): "Truth marries...
...Danahue, Doug Pirnie, and Johnie Bunker were the Harvard entrants in the Knights of Columbus Meet at the Boston Garden Saturday night. Donahue and Pirnie were eliminated in the semi-finals of the 45 yard high hurdle, and the 50 yard dash events respectively. Bunker competed in the high jump...