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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also an admirer of the serpentine wall was another President, Thomas Jefferson. After seeing "ribbon walls" in England, Jefferson reproduced them at the University of Virginia because they were 1) esthetically pleasing, and 2) structurally stronger than straight walls of the same width...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Alligator & the Squirrels | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Peter Krogh is scheduled to play at number two position. Wynn terms him as "the type of player it is extremely hard to win points from. He is consistent and does not waste his shots." Last year's Virginia State Junior Champion, Rod Nichols, is third man, and Manny Elizalde, winner of the National Junior Doubles Championship of Japan, a Phillipine player with a steady game, is four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Tennis Squad Has Best Players in Years | 3/25/1955 | See Source »

...BRUCE MUNRO: April 4, at Navy; 5, at University of Virginia; 6, at Johns Hopkins; 7, at University of Maryland; 9, at Princeton; 16, at Tufts; 18, at Cornell; 19, at Syracuse; 23, Pennsylvania; 27, at M.I.T.; 30, Williams; May 4, University of New Hampshire; 7, at Middlebury; 14, at Dartmouth; 18, Trinity; 21, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

...uncorked a high-scoring punch and flattened West Texas State 89-66. In the next round the Dons beat Utah 83-71. In the East, at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, La Salle College's defending champions set a new tournament record as they smothered West Virginia 95-61 under a hail of last-half baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Rod Cools Off | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Temporarily cooled off, Rod Hundley, the sophomore Hot Rod, went home to the hills of West Virginia. But for a little while he had been up in the big time. Fans hoped that his kind of carefree clowning might some day be a permanent fixture of collegiate basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Rod Cools Off | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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