Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, from Rome to Pisa...
...University Afloat" consists of two semesters. During the first term students visit ten countries in Europe. Periods of Resident Study are held in the university towns of Oxford, Strasbourg, Innsbruck, Pisa, and Heidelberg, as well as during the Atlantic-crossing in the "Resolute", and classes are conducted on regular schedule. England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Monaco and the Riviera, Switzerland, and Italy are included in this itinerary...
...with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut. Giuseppe Da-monte, they were going to Rome to try and regain their non-refueling endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean not far from Pisa, the plane's propeller snapped. Flailing blades ripped through the cockpit, slashed the fuselage in two. One man tried to jump as the plane dove. But his parachute was caught in a strut, he went to death with his mates...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa. Given his red hat along with the late great Cardinal Mercier, twice a candidate for the Papacy, he performed the marriage ceremony between Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie José of Belgium last January...
Salvemini will lecture at Harvard and Radcliffe on the history of Italy from the French Revolution to the end of the late war. He was formerly professor of Mediaeval and Modern History at the University of Messina, 1902-09, University of Pisa, 1909-17, and the University of Florence...