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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until this year he got black Harry Payne, a onetime Howard quarterback, to work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight ago 3,000 spectators were waiting in the stands to see Howard play Virginia Union when an announcer ran breathless onto the field with the news that the Bisons had quietly walked out on the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bison Strike | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Awarded. To Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard College; the American Woman's Association's 1936 Award for Eminent Achievement; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Virginia flasco in the Stadium, the Crimson eleven suffered a relapse which continued just far enough into the Navy battle to allow the visitors to pile up an early lead. But by the end of the third quarter the Crimson forces had staged a comeback which indicated that the Harlow improvement trail had been found again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Squad Takes Harvard's Hopes of Big Three Gridiron Title With Them to Yale Today | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Edgar Allan Poe returns as an undergraduate from the University of Virginia where he has been drinking and gambling, not because he enjoyed such sports but because he was sent there without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...that no discrimination be shown for or against athletes in the awarding of scholarships by the University scholarship committee. "College Topics". University of Virginia November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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