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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gridironing | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...following men have been elected to the Tau Beta Pi society of the Engineering School: Saul Samuel Ganick of East Boston, Jacob Ginsburg of East Boston, Ghulam Hassan Khan of Kashmir, India, Charles Howard Wells of Wheeling. West Virginia, and Vasu Dev Zadoo of Kashmir, India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING SCHOOL HONOR FRATERNITY ELECTS FIVE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...TEACHERS ARE PEOPLE-Virginia Church- Wallace Hebberd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolhouse Fauna | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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