Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed over Puerto Rico. One plane crashed mysteriously into...
Railroads Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4,907,254 3,641,763 Norfolk & Western...
Author Norah Lofts is a pretty girl from Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
Accompanied by the strains of a convict swing band, the Harvard debating team utterly vanquished the "Baddies" of the Norfolk Prison Colony last night within their 'opponents' walls...
Bulwark of the Norfolk side was a certain lifer named John Wall, who will probably prove a stumbling block in the success of many Harvard debators of future generations...