Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy had previously won five straight, topping Virginia, Pittsburg, Bainbridge Naval Training Station, Columbia, and Pennsylvania. These victims, however, are not the most powerful available...
...were overcrowded, its salaries "definitely low," its library "grossly inadequate." As a matter of fact, almost every library at the university was a scandal. The English Department had a book budget of only $600 a year, and the law library had only $8,000 compared to the University of Virginia's $23,000. The association's summary of the music library: "Dictionaries-poor; History of Music-unsatisfactory; Theory-unsatisfactory; Musical Form-poor; Counterpoint-poor; Biographies-poor; Music Education-satisfactory; Magazines-professional (3), scholarly type (none) ..." Ds & Fs. Of all parts of the university, however, none got such...
...Philip M. Talbott, 58, senior vice president of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, was elected 1955 president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. After graduation from Virginia's Randolph-Macon school, Talbott joined W. & L. ("Where my parents shopped when I was a kid. I sort of liked the store") and never left. Starting as a boys'-clothing salesman, he missed few rungs as he climbed, fitted in well with W. & L.'s character: dignified, with a folksy touch. Talbott predicts a 2½% to 3½% boost in total U.S. retail sales this...
...carry the virus, are found in a continuous belt reaching from El Salvador through Mexico and into much of the U.S. Most of the U.S. South (all the territory below a line drawn from Yuma, Ariz, to the northeast corner of New Mexico and across the continent to where Virginia and North Carolina meet the Atlantic) is infested with these mosquitoes. In this area- one-third of the country-the disease could flare up at any time...
...William Fulbright helped push the market down by announcing that his Banking and Currency Committee "probably will make a study" of the market's recent sharp rise. Said Fulbright: "The situation looks very dangerous to me. It is too reminiscent of 1929." Committee Member A. Willis Robertson, a Virginia Democrat, disagreed, said that FRB and the Treasury Department were capable of watching the market without the help of any Congressional investigation. Added Alabama's John Sparkman: "I have never felt that we were at the top of the market's rise . . . I don't feel that...