Word: shenandoahs
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...Troxell, who is Connecticut's State geologist and teaches geology at Hartford's Trinity College, last week proudly exhibited the latest results of a lifetime spent thinking about rocks: a xylophone made of stone. The idea came to him on a trip through Virginia's Shenandoah Caverns when his guide produced a beautiful, clanking tone by striking a stalactite across the middle...
...Aluminum relics of the Navy's late dirigible Shenandoah turned up in Ohio where the airship crashed 16 years ago. Into a collection bin at Point Pleasant, N.J., went a fragment of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, which burned at Lakehurst...
...they were going to church-all this made a background for the President's words, as fitting as the words themselves. From Charlottesville, where he had been resting in "Pa" Watson's three-roomed guest house, the President had motored along the ridges above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead-end of a one-way street, facing a hill that led to the main part of town, the President stood before the old Presbyterian manse. He looked pale and worn; his hands trembled...
...Brower is a piccolo-sized (140 lb.), tuba-voiced salesman who once dealt in dry goods in Omaha, now is an insurance broker in Shenandoah, Iowa. Three weeks ago Brower heard of a law* which requires the Government to advance premiums for two years (in the form of interest-bearing certificates) on life insurance up to $5,000 carried by National Guardsmen, volunteers and conscripts taken into the Army...
...Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly over Boone's old Wilderness Trail into Kentucky...