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No debunker of great men and great legends is Historian Morison. Nor does he believe that the sweep and play of economic forces determine the major course of history. He was profoundly skeptical of biographies that presented Columbus as a fraud, a promoter, an exploiter of the achievements of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan Professor Morison, who is not given to understatement, exulted at the rediscovery of the great discoverer's honesty, rejoiced at his victory over those who had tried to prove that Columbus was a "louse, a liar, and good for nothing except getting money out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

The Nobel Prize has gone thrice to the Curies. Once to fragile, indomitable Mother Marie and her husband Pierre, the late great discoverers of radium. Once to Mother Marie alone. Once to her spitting image and scientific successor Daughter Irène, the violently athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samuel E. Morison's Columbus Expedition Reaches United States After Five Months of Following Explorer's Courses | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

Without equivocation, the supposedly reputable We the People radioviewed Doctor Longoria Tuesday, Nov. 7, as the discoverer of the "death ray."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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