Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutiful Discovery. In Richmond, B.C., the school board proudly inspected its partially completed $138,000 school, went sheepishly back to the municipal council for another $7,620 so that the school could be equipped with desks...
...candor was refreshing. Oveta Gulp Hobby, wartime head of the WAC and executive editor of the Houston Post, turned to another editor and murmured: "I wish we had him on our staff." There were others who felt the same way. Soon Ashmore got flattering job offers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette...
Matriculating in a College which had that year reached in all-time high enrollment of 2620 undergraduates, '22 devoted the first half of the academic year chiefly to the maintainance of tradition. Coach John Fisher's football team, with Richmond Keith Kane as its captain, fought a nine-game schedule with considerable success. Two local colleges, Boston University and Holy Cross, were the first to bow to the Crimson...
...vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
...Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, who had a, go at bottling up the Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor, went a standard honor, nearly half a century after his triumph and ten years after his death: the Hobson manse in Greensboro, Ala. was dedicated as a public shrine...