Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Institute was founded in 1930 with an endowment from the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundation. Henry B. Bigelow, then a Professor at Harvard, became first director and head of the Board of trustees. Also interested at this early stage was Columbus D. Iselin, also a Harvard man, who later became director of the Institute when Bigelow retired. Up to this time, although Bigelow and Iselin had made exploratory trips to Labrador, there had been no systematic study of Oceanography in the United States...
Sampler. In Columbus, Miss., James C. Pidgeon got a divorce after he testified that his bride drank excessively and threatened him with a knife during the one day they lived together...
...Columbus. Ohio, Hawaii's Ford Konno, freewheeling free-style swimmer for Ohio State, set a new world record for the 220-yd. distance, 2:04.8, breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. ¶ At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points...
...date the varsity has had only one official meet, a 60-49 loss to Boston University early in the season. But looking at its recent wins at the Knights of Columbus and the B.A.A. meets, the Crimson seems to be coming on and will have the chance to prove it this Saturday against Brown...
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is a nobody with an all too mortal longing to be a Somebody. Fired from her job in a Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name...