Word: nere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacAlpin, Rex Nere of 4056 Stansbury Street, Sherman Oaks; Harvard School, North Hollywood. Maradudin, Aleixei Alexei of 135 West Palm Avenue, El Segundo; El Segundo High. Stokdyk, John Ellis of 702 Hilldale Street, Berkeley; Berkeley High. Twitchell, Robert Spencer of Woodrow Wilson High, Long Beach...
...passing through the University. The University is the repository of the records of all that is best in Man, and the faculty are men through whom the wisdom of those records should be communicated to other men. Can professors have any greater duty than to teach? I think not. Nere fiddled while Rome burned. Let it not be said of Harvard professors that they did likewise. Sincerely, Gabriel Jackson...
...labyrinth used to devour sacrificial Greek virgins-6-inch naval gunfire bellowed over the blue Mediterranean one morning last week. The 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney had engaged two Italian cruisers of the 5,06g-ton Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first and flashed word to the Sydney, which was coming down from...
...Bande Nere promptly fled, but not before being hit. The Colleoni paused long enough to trade salvos with the Sydney. This was fatal. A shell struck into her boiler room, and crippled her so that British destroyers could close in and polish her off with two torpedoes. The destroyers then rescued 545 officers & men who had stripped and jumped overboard. Italian dead & wounded totaled about...
...effigy to most U. S. tourists. The statue of Colleoni by Verrocchio, which stands in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is one of the world's great equestrian statues; several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself said the statue looked like a sack of melons...