Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Inhabited Garden. The New World smelled good from the beginning. Columbus noted that "there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
Double Take. In Raleigh, N.C., George Council was taken into custody on an old "breaking and entering" charge after Police Chief George A. Jackson of Dunn, N.C. spotted his picture in a Raleigh furniture store's "Employees' Month" advertisement...
Counterintelligence. In Raleigh, N.C., G.I.s of the North Carolina Military District were issued sun helmets and heavy wool scarves...
Graham's real opposition came from 62-year-old Willis Smith, a Raleigh corporation lawyer and chairman of the Duke University board of trustees who once served as president of the American Bar Association, and was a registered state lobbyist for several manufacturers and wholesalers. Though he was a cold, uninspired speaker, who often talked at his audience as if he were addressing a jury in a utility case, he seemed to be making considerable headway...
GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE Chicago (N) 8, St. Louis (N) 4 Gainesville (BSL) 1, St. Louis (A) 0 Cleveland 9, New York (N) 4 Roanoke (PL) 4, Boston (A) 2 Boston (N) 18, Richmond (PL) 2 Raleigh (CSL) 5, Philadelphia (A) 3 Washington 15, Durham (CSL) 6 Louisville (AA) 5, Philadelphia (N) 3 Detroit 4, Chicago (A) 3 Brooklyn 3, Baltimore...