Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond Morcum of New Hampshire was the sensation of the meet as he walked off with three titles tucked under his belt. He took the high jump with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap and the broad jump with a 23 ft., 10 in. effort, and finished a good day's work by triumphing in the pole vault at 14 feet...
...largest military hospital that ever existed in the U.S. was the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in the Civil War. It had 9,000 beds in 150 wooden buildings much like modern temporary barracks (the biggest present-day civil hospitals are state institutions for the insane, which rarely exceed 5,000 beds...
Traffic Hazard. In Richmond, Calif., when Autoist Charles Foley made a slow left turn, meticulously hand-signaling out the window, he lost his wrist watch to a light-fingered pedestrian...
...Toronto music store by a little Englishman named Barnes who was trying to sell a batch of old musical manuscripts. Barnes, a paper hanger, house painter and grocer who dabbled in collecting, said he had found his manuscripts about 20 years before in a little bookstore at Richmond and York Streets. The shop had since been torn down. Its owner, one Rosenthal, had died...
...brands of which they had never heard. They knew that those brands took up just as much cargo space as the big-five cigarets most of them had been accustomed to smoking. Troops in England spread a rumor (false) that the U.S. Government had taken over a plant in Richmond, was making its own cigarets and calling them "Chelsea." This probably sprang up months ago when soldiers ordering their favorite brands were given Chelseas in the ratio of three to four of the favorites...