Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Fish" glide or do they fly? Each of the above mentioned observers tells one-half the truth. These fish glide as well as fly. . . . The following are my personal observations, made under nearly "laboratory" conditions. On Aug. 31 at Santa Barbara Island, the U.S.S. West Virginia, was at anchor in the lee of the island during the night. On the midwatch I had rigged a 200-watt cargo lamp, equipped with a reflector, at the side to direct boats to the quarter-deck sea-ladder. The light was 20 ft. above the water line, and pointed directly downward...
Danced in a circle by a group, like the Paul Jones, the Big Apple is led by one who calls the steps, as in a Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon...
Elected. Carter Glass Jr., 44, youngest son of the Senator from Virginia; to the presidency of the American Philatelic Society; in Detroit...
Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...
Owning electric and gas properties in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia, the company argued that most of its power subsidiaries were already connected by transmission lines and required no geographical round-up (such as the Act might enforce on the loose units of other companies). In addition, American Water Works actually controls more than 80 water companies in 21 States and in Cuba. The company asked that, as the Act permits, these be found ''reasonably incidental or economically necessary or appropriate to the operation of the system...