Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lexington, Va., Robert E. Lee IV, 24, great-grandson of the General of the Confederacy, graduated from the university named after his ancestor: Washington...
...Mole Hill, W. Va. (pop. 93) changed its name to Mountain, W. Va...
...Name. In Richmond, Va., after recruiting officers turned him down for the second time, 16-year-old John Paul Jones agreed to wait another year to join the Navy...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
...sunny hilltop near Alexandria, Va., 85 Episcopal bishops, ministers and laymen assembled one day last week to consider a major crisis of their church. It was not a lack of members; the church's enrollment had ballooned 130% since 1900. But there were no longer enough shepherds to minister to this record flock. In the same 49 years the number of active ministers had grown by a mere...