Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
Though the Pilgrim Fathers founded Massachusetts and literally filled the woods hereabouts in the early history of the colonies, immigration and the growth of cities have worked to render the Pilgrim so rare an avis in Boston now-a-days that the Jewett Players have been forced to advertise for a shipment...
Harvard University was founded in 1636. In that year, answering the desire of the pilgrim settlers to perpetuate the learning acquired at home in England, by many of them at the University of Cambridge, the General court of Massachusetts Bay colony appropriated 100 pounds for the foundation of an institution which would educate the "English and Indian youth in knowledge and godliness." Chicago did not become a city until...
Wilkins. The week's news of the earliest, most handicapped but most dogged polar pilgrim of them all, was: "Commander Wilkins waiting with the Detroiter at Point Barrow for fair weather...
...those pilgrim publishers, the oldest and the most distinguished was Major George Haven Putnam, 82 this month, who has been fighting, ever since he fought his way from private to major in the Civil War, for better copyright conditions in the U.S. and internationally. Just as he carried on his father's business, he revived in 1887 and led the American Copyright League, originated by his father, George Palmer Putnam, in 1851. In 1891, this organization secured the passage in Congress of the present copyright code, an event France signalized by presenting Major Putnam with her Legion of Honor...