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Word: columbus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here in Taipei your April 23 Pacific Edition brought the first news to me of the passing of Dr. Paul Hutchinson. Because of his appeal for the youth of China, at the Methodist Centennial in Columbus, Ohio in 1919, I went to China as his assistant; my first summer there was spent with Paul and Agnes and their three youngsters in the mountains of Fukien. As long as they lived in Shanghai, their home was open to me. After reading "Happy Man," one happy woman reflects that except for Paul Hutchinson I might never have gone to China, might never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Hidden Asset. In Columbus, Ohio, arrested on a check-forging charge, Chemical Worker John Boston asked the cops, "Is this all you got against me?", grabbed the check when a cop nodded assent, swallowed the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...largest university library in the world--may well relate this past: but no one really believes in it. American history itself only began in 1780. From the colonial period, only architecture, which has been jealously preserved, remains; from the first colonists, or the "Pilgrims" (and it wasn't Christopher Columbus but the passengers of the "Mayflower" who discovered America), only Puritanism and its heavenly commandments to the New Promised Land survived: "You will have no other desire than that of earning money, which will be the only lawful and pleasing thing in the eyes of God." And it is true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard: A Convent of the New Middle Ages? | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

FREDERIC HEIMBERGER Vice President The Ohio State University Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...cattle business started off with Christopher Columbus, who took hardy, long-horned Moorish stock from Spain's Andalusian plains and dropped them off in 1493 at Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GOLDEN CALF | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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