Word: vespucci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Florence, Italy, last week press-agented with folio upon folio on the City of Flowers, on its musical heritage stretched to include Dante, Michelangelo & Amerigo Vespucci, came the Florentine Polyphonic Choir, gave its debut concert* in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being has yet been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies would still be the hunting ground of the coyote and the timber wolf...