Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work is possible. . . . Yorkshire: East Riding farmers have worked after sunshine and a drying...
George R. Kelly '44 of Norwood carried off one of the Democratic nominations for State Representative in the Seventh Norfolk District according to Schedule, leaving him the prospect of swinging a normally Republican electorate with his Irish-veteran-Harvard background...
When she refused to sit in the Jim Crow section of a Norfolk-Baltimore bus, Irene Morgan, a Negro, was thrown out and fined $10. Virginia's highest court upheld the action. But an appeal was made to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week seven nimble Justices ducked the racial question and settled everything on the basis of comfortable traveling...
...victory and one defeat is the week-end score for the Debate Council, with one team taking the measure of a visiting Kings Point squad Saturday on the subject of compulsory military training, and another team beaten Sunday by a trio of debaters at the Norfolk Prison Colony on the subject of free trade. The next debates for the Crimson will be on March 22-23, against Columbia, West Point, and Wesleyan...
Like Writers Fielding and Swift of their day, Engravers Hogarth, Rowlandson and Gillray masked their acid realism with ribaldry, spared little that was worth debunking. Nymphs were turned into hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among...