Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventeen Crimson track men will help open the 1953 Boston indoor track season tonight in the annual Knights of Columbus track meet at the Garden...
...about from home to school to barbershop, he has recalled a pace of life that the U.S. will surely never know again, and the nostalgia he evokes is sometimes as moving as a Sandburg folk song. What is lacking is the elusive human dimension that James Thurber caught (for Columbus, Ohio) in The Thurber Album...
Space enthusiasts like to compare the present with the time just before Columbus, when Europeans were about ready to launch out over the Atlantic. The analogy is poor. Columbus did not know what he would find on the other side of the ocean, but he had ships that would take him across. The space men can see across their "ocean," but they have no ships...
...Look at this Von Braun! He is the man who lost the war for Hitler. His V-2 was a great engineering achievement, but it had almost no military effect and it drained German brains and material from more practical weapons. Von Braun has always wanted to be the Columbus of space. He was thinking of space flight, not weapons, when he sold the V-2 to Hitler. He says so himself. He is still thinking of space flight, not weapons, and he is trying to sell the U.S. a space flight project disguised as a means of dominating...
Joiner. In Hutchinson, Kans., Jeweler Glenn Brown caught a bad-check artist who casually remarked that he was both a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Masons...