Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic necessity, said the President, was also "a very tough job." This great necessity was to maintain four lines of communication: 1) the North Atlantic, 2) the South Atlantic, 3) the Indian Ocean, 4) the South Pacific. (For a map of the world's battlefront Routes & Roads, see p. 15.) "A vessel can make a round trip by either route in about four months, or only three round trips in a whole year...
...Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is by no means a staid biography. It explodes many of the myths that we have come to associate with Columbus, yet it does so in a light-hearted vein. Columbus did not have to convince the authorities that the world was round (they had known it long before); the story of Columbus and his egg was probably a figment of the imagination of a later writer; it is untrue that the invention of the astrolabe enabled Columbus to discover America--he didn't know how to use it then. Professor Morison can write beautiful...
...year, the other half not being given. Any dissatisfaction he may have felt then may be more than recompensed now, however, for he has here the opportunity to benefit from the half-year periods which Professor Morison has spent away from the College. "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is the product, not only of long and patient research in the records of Columbus and his contemporaries, but also of Professor Morison's own voyages along the routes of the Discoverer. And it is not exaggeration to say that this is one of the great biographies of our literature...
Professor Morison points out in his preface that most preceding works on the Admiral could be entitled "Columbus to the Water's Edge." They have been written by "indoor geographers and armchair admirals" who knew nothing of the pleasures and hazards of ocean travel. It was for this reason that Professor Morison took time out from his College work to lead his "Harvard Columbus Expedition" under much the same conditions as those which Columbus himself experienced...
FORT PIERCE, Fla.-The U. S. tanker Cities Service Empire, 8,103 tons, was hit by three torpedoes and sank in flames in the Atlantic Ocean south of here early Sunday, it was disclosed tonight...