Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aggrey Awori, who finished fourth in both the hurdles and the dash in the ago, was up against tougher fields this Knights of Columbus meet two weeks time. He was shut out of the dash final and finished fifth in the hurdles...
Brumidi's grand dream was to paint a 9-ft.-wide frieze around the Capitol Rotunda, below the dome, illustrating the history of the New World from the landing of Columbus to the Great Gold Rush. He was 72 when he started, and he had finished six of the 15 panels when, in 1879, he fell from his scaffold chair, grasped at the ropes and hung for 15 minutes before being rescued. Brumidi never fully recovered from the shock of the experience, spent the last few months of his life working in the seclusion of his studio, while other...
...first, second, third, and fourth marshals are, in that order: David H. Abramson of Eliot House and Jamaica Estates, N.Y.; John S. F. Daly of 142 Pearl St. Cambridge and Gladstone, Ill.; Ricardo A. Wilson of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Jerry Mechling of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio...
...awesome freshman track team stole the spotlight from the varsity over the weekend by setting three Harvard record, in Saturday's Knights of Columbus meet in the Boston Garden...
...King's era. But historians call the earlier Louis' reign the "High Epoch," a period when Frenchmen culled ideas from the cultures of other European countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis XIII knew art lent dignity to the Crown. His style was spreading, iron hand in velvet glove with nationalism, while France pioneered the idea of the modern...