Word: tarheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned professional, and Don McNeill and Joe Hunt are in the Navy, young Seixas may be a leading contender for this year's national championship...
...famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old "Uncle Joe" Daniels had "enlisted for the war" to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD in Washington...
Starting at 9:15 Wednesday night it snowed continually until the early hours of the morning while the temperature hovered in the low teens. --From the Tarheel, North Carolina University...
...varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...Tarheel Charles McDowell was a hero of the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. (On page 306, the book says he was buried in 1775.) These were among more than 200 errors of fact turned up by a white-haired, peppery schoolteacher named Nell Battle Lewis, who writes a column in the Raleigh News and Observer. Miss Lewis described the whole thing as A POLITICAL STINK...