Word: fauquier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied 15 hours a day, and had for his boon companions a great lawyer (George Wythe), a philosopher and mathematician (Dr. William Small), and the witty, gambling Governor Francis Fauquier...
...restaurants and banking, earnest, book-&-horse-loving Paul Mellon, 33-year-old only son of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, entered famed St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., a freshman. Weekending with wife and daughter on his nearby 400-acre farm in foxy Fauquier County, Va., Freshman Mellon on weekdays will begin to mull the 100 classics which St. John's considers all that is necessary for a college education...