Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier
Early this year, Malone started planning a Pilgrimage of Poetry. From English departments of some 700 U. S. colleges and universities he got rankings of all the late, great U. S. poets, settled for the top-ranked 32,* arranged with NBC a 12,000-mile Odyssey to broadcast from their homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico...
...hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas Eve, the venturesome young men reached Boca Grande, Orchid Hunter MacDonald was already at work on notes for his readable, Rover-Boyish orchid odyssey...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Milwaukee last week, Dr. Victor George Heiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) made a powerful plea for proper stoking of the human machine. Science has proved, said he, that the greatest factor in longevity is correct eating...