Word: vale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirteenth Apostle, Vale...
...wonder whether you may have had tongue in cheek when you explained Cwthmas as "an abbreviation of 'Commonwealthmas'; the 'w' is pronounced like that in the town of Ebbw Vale." I'm lost...
...Ebbw Vale is pronounced Ebboo Vale, so Cwthmas is Coothmas. Both are more easily said with the tongue out of the cheek...
...abbreviation of "Commonwealthmas"; the "w" is pronounced like that in the town of Ebbw Vale...
Statewide Campus. Next to the last colony into the Union, North Carolina lacked good seaports for the cotton-slave boom that swept Virginia and South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share...