Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wabash-Lehigh Valley, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Western Maryland. Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western. Seaboard Air Line, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton...
...curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan...
Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain...
...South: Duke v. North Carolina State at Durham; Florida v. Clemson at Gainesville ; Georgia v. Alabama Poly at Athens; Georgia Tech v. Alabama at Atlanta; Kentucky v. V. M. I. at Lexington; Tennessee v. Vanderbilt at Knoxville; Tulane v. Sewanee at New Orleans; V. P. I. v. Maryland at Norfolk; Washington & Lee v. Virginia at Lexington...
...Shrewd Norfolk farmers in the east of England were reported last week to be bartering pails of milk for pints of water. Half round the world in Santiago de Cuba there were street fights and stabbings when the water-carts passed. Prolonged drought was parching many lands, but rural England and Cuba seemed to suffer most. Scientists recalled that, although man can go without food for two months and live, without water he shrivels and dies in from six days...