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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the years, Carleton's automobile has towed boats, dragged logs, and served as tractor and truck, as well as making several trips to Virginia. Right now, however, it is concentrating on finding the way to Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Jalopies' or 'Antiques,' Some Student Cars Go On Forever | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Amen | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." They further claimed, "The swines and they had share and share alike." Because of general discontent with Eaton's conduct and the proved charges about the food, he was fined, deposed, and forced to flee to Virginia in 1639. He later died in debtors' prison...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: College Has 300 Year Food Problem | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Leonard C. Gordon '51 of Mansfield, Ohic, and Lowell House; John B. Jones, Jr. '50 of Radnor, Pennsylvania, and Winthrop House; Ray W. Karras '51 of Santa Monica, California, and Winthrop House; and Charles H. F. Meade '51 of Crozet, Virginia, and Dunster House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Group Names Four Men To 1950 Positions | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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