Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...
Rolla D. Campbell, Jr. '41, of Huntington, West Virginia, and Thayer Hall, was elected Freshman track captain by the team yesterday. Campbell was on the Phillips Exeter track team under Coach Henry Carrell. As a Freshman this winter he ran the 600, and outdoors he has developed into the star half-miler. In the University Handicap Meet his time in the half...
...Long Island Sound same day Whitfield took flight. The plane's motor sputtered, said he, then died, and he thought it might have dropped into the Sound. By last week's end private searchers had given up. Meantime, while Andrew Whitfield 's father & mother remained in Virginia, Brother John scoffed at hints of suicide, told the press he thought the missing flyer was hiding somewhere within the plane's 150-mile flying radius...
Married. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; to Newport & Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet, 30; in Manhattan...
...named Victor Rastorgeff went up over the perfectly flat country of central Russia last May and on successive flights soared 335, 374, 405 miles (previous world's record: 313 miles), U. S. soaring experts began to wonder if the hills around Elmira, N.Y. and on the edges of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley really are the best places in the country for their sport. Richard Chichester du Pont, Paul du Pont, and Lewin Barringer of the Soaring Society of America looked at a map, picked out the great plains of northwest Texas and Oklahoma as the best spot...