Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Gildersleeve was born and raised on Manhattan's 48th Street-just across from where Rockefeller Center now stands-but she summered in the country. She was a solemn, round-eyed child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...
...baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady ("Question: What bird furnishes military plumes? Answer: That beautiful bird, the common cock of our farmyards: the long streamer feathers of his neck and back, and the stiffer ones of his tail, are formed by industrious females into...
...enclosing a copy of a section of a letter written ... by Lieut. Jeanne R. Moore, 48th Field Hospital...
...Contributions should be addressed to Freedom House, 16 East 48th St., New York...
...valiant career ended. The Navy announced that in supporting the landings at Ormoc Dec. 7, the converted destroyer-transport Ward, commanded by Lieut. Richard E. Farwell, was struck by aerial torpedoes along with the 1,450-ton destroyer Mohan, had to be abandoned and sunk. They were the 48th and 49th U.S. destroyers lost in World...