Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl R. Woodward, president of the University of Rhode Island. LL.D...
...after her 54th birthday, Glenna Collett Vare, six times women's amateur golf champion, played a 36-hole match with Rhode Island Champion Joan Bobel, 19, won two-and-one, and took back the state title she last held 36 years...
University of Rhode Island...
...Rhode Island's hale, hearty Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green turned 89 years, 7 months, 26 days, thus became the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. His goal: to observe his centenary while in office...
...million it will need by 1960, and "practically every community will have a hopeless educational problem." In West Virginia, only three out of 55 counties have kept their school buildings up to par; the rest have either been unable or unwilling to foot the bill. Rhode Island, which says it needs between $60 million and $70 million in the next four years, also has a crisis. (Example: Pawtucket recently had to close temporarily nine out of 23 schools as too dangerous to use.) In Kentucky, almost all of the 220 districts have already reached the maximum tax rate allowed...