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...ordained deacon, later priest. As an occasional lecturer on religious matters he was in 1630 silenced for non-conformity by Laud, the Bishop of London. He was not allowed to speak publicly henceforth in England because of the example set by Laud, and so in 1634 he set sail for Boston, but was driven back by a storm and remained in hiding in Kingland until the next year, when he sailed again, reaching his destination October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial is Erected for Pastor Who Was Influential in Founding Harvard | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the North Atlantic. They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Norse | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

GLOUCESTER, Mass.--The third race for the International Fishermen's trophy was postponed today for a ninth time so that official measurement of the disputed waterline and sail area of the two contenders may be taken tomorrow. The race will be sailed Sunday--weather permitting--twice around an 18- mile triangle off Gloucester, the race committee said

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...withdrawn by Milan police, already had left Milan "and should be in France by now." The information was said to have been given to friends by the former Signovina Fornaroli, the wife of Toscanini's son Walter, and came after Toscanini's had been represented to be determined to sail for the United States Wednesday "at any cost...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Bread Alone | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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