Word: acadia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that West Virginia is merely western Virginia. Numerous residents of the state, in giving their addresses on out-of-state hotel registers, write "West (by God) Virginia." While Kanawha, Westsylvania, Augusta and others have been discussed in the legislative halls, the name which has won the widest favor is "Acadia," and means "a happy, prosperous land." The state would thus be the first in the alphabetical list of states and entitled to nominate Presidents ahead of Alabama. As it is, West Virginia makes the 17th seconding speech, at 3:30 the next morning. MONROE WORTHINGTON Editor Fayette Tribune Oak Hill...
...front door. Though nominally retired since 1954, he is interested in many of the island's good works. Unobtrusively, he is building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more of the unsightly "snags" (tree stumps) left by the 1947 Bar Harbor fire, making up the annual deficit of the Seal Harbor library, encouraging the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society to keep a neat...
...been cut and the sap is running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would...
...Eaton controls a $150 million empire. Eaton clinches his big deals on weekends at his 860-acre farm, Acadia, 15 miles outside Cleveland, where he raises champion cattle and likes to sit by the fire reading philosophy. Eaton's own philosophy is that a man must keep busy...
Hevelock, a native of Canada, is an authority on Greek Philosophy. He taught at the Acadia University in Nova Scotia before coming to the University on a Guggenheim Fellowship...