Word: nunez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salvador, Capt. Nunez; Honduras, Pilot Garay; Guatemala, Commandant Morales Lopez; Cuba, Capt. Delaborde; Peru, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos; Mexico, Emilio Carranza. Best known in the U. S. was Mexico's Carranza, who flew through fogs, storms and engine trouble from Mexico City to Washington. As he was trying to fly back, lightning struck his plane, killed...
...foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean...
Burke Boyee '22, former University captain, who ranked third in the tournament last year, found himself yesterday in the semi-finals of the foils tourney with Nupez, national three-weapon champion last year, and Calanan, national epee champion of last year. Boyce lost by the closest of margins to Nunez, who with Peroy will contend for the title...
...Boyee '22, and J. S. Barss '22, will represent the University tonight at 8 o'clock in the Eastern Epee Championships, to be held at the B. A. A. Entered in the matches will be teams composed of the best swordsmen in the country, including the national championship, Leo Nunez of New York and three or four members of the Olympic team. This will be the last important match for the University before the intercollegiates on April...