Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World Record. Expert cattlemen were as completely surprised as Dairyman Poth. Howard Mason Gore, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1925-29) Governor of West Virginia and a cattleman himself, declared that the largest birth he ever heard of was quadruplets. Benjamin F. Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither...
...this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took her to lunch to find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor...
...drugging the market, AAA officials in Washington held a conference with 100 representatives of growers, arranged for four general co-operative marketing associations to buy peanuts for diversion into by-products and oil instead of sending them directly to market. Last week southwestern growers were asking $65 a ton. Virginia growers as much as $80. The co-operatives will buy the surplus with RFC and AAA funds, may resell to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. Co-operatives will, however, be free to turn their purchases back into normal trade channels if prices are not damaged...
Robert W. Frase, Madison, Wisconsin, B.A., 1934, University of Wisconsin, Social Security Board; Paul Cushing Howard, Rahway, New Jersey, A.B., 1935, Brown University, Social Security Board; Dayton Wood Hull, Rochester, New York, A.B., 1935, Harvard, American Trucking Associations; Gove Griffith Johnson Jr., Aurora Hills, Virginia, A.B., 1934, Harvard, Treasury Department; Oscar Mendel Lurie, New York City, A.B., 1935, Harvard, will remain for an additional year with the United States Employment Service, and William Augustus Waldron 2nd, Schnectady, New York, A.B., 1935, Union College, will spend next year in the field, probably with some state government...
Setting what is believed to be a new Olympic and world's record, Louis R. Chauvenot, of Esmont, Virginia, won a year's subscription to the CRIMSON by becoming the first Freshman to hand in his study card, it was revealed last night...