Word: magnus
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GLADSTONE (482 pp.)-Philip Magnus -Dutton...
...STEPHEN MAGNUS Winnetka...
...given her the Hope Diamond to use as a paperweight. She answered all the committee's, questions. She was born in a part of Austria-Hungary which is now Czechoslovakia, came to the U.S. in 1939. She was married to a wealthy, Norwegian-born shipping man named Magnus Konow. In 1947, out of sheer vivacity and a desire to prove that she was not just a "sweet child," she had bought two ships herself and had, in her own words, become the world's only lady tanker operator...
Ridge will just be a federal island within the South, unless we can add its research potential to our educational system." Soon, he had such men as President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina and Dr. Paul Magnus Gross, vice president of Duke University, in the crusade with him. When the institute opened, it had 14 charter members willing to help support it, and gradually the number rose to 29. Through a central council and a board of directors these members manage the institute's affairs, share its Government-owned facilities. Says William Pollard: "We like...
King's Expedition. Dr. Thalbitzer does not pretend to know how eight Swedes and 22 Norwegians got to Minnesota in 1362. But he repeats a theory developed by Hjalmar R. Holand, a Norwegian-American who has long championed the Kensington Stone. In 1356, according to Holand, King Magnus Ericksson of Sweden and Norway sent an expedition under Powell Knutsson to see what had happened to the Norse colonies in Greenland. When they found that the colonists were dead or had moved elsewhere, Knutsson's Norsemen pushed farther west. Eventually they reached Hudson Bay, and then the Great Lakes...