Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgil Jordan, economist of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co,, became president of the National Industrial Conference Board, fact-finding agency, of which he was research director 1920-29. He succeeds the late Engineer Magnus Washington Alexander. Virgil Jordan sometimes writes under the name Homer Hudson...
...main passageway was a large, natural rock room with three big niches. The niches apparently afforded living quarters for the Sibyl and her servants. The large room must have been her audience chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
...Virgil's Aencid...
Exceptionally long, but not too difficult, was the examination in Virgil. Most difficult Caesar question: to account for the mood of exsecuturus esset in the sentence, Caesar respondit se fore aequissimum Pharniaci si quae polliceretur exsecuturus esset...
...University of Michigan Hospital at Ann Arbor, Virgil Bailey. 30. farmer, last week realized what an uncommonly deep breath he had taken five years before. At that time he had inhaled while in a dental chair. The dentist was changing a burr in his tooth drill. The burr slipped from the dentist's fingers, disappeared. The dentist surmised that it fell in some fold of his or Virgil Bailey's clothes, hunted no further. But Virgil Bailey had inhaled the burr. Lately deep-breathing Mr. Bailey experienced chest pains. X-rays showed the burr in the lower lobe...