Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another kind of snarl developed when one couple separated, the man staying in New York and his wife moving to Virginia. First she sent in a change-of-address notice, then he changed it back. After the address had changed five times, the Subscription Service realized what was happening, left it with the wife. The subscription was a gift from her uncle...
...close of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.), Virginia's Harry Byrd clipped such excerpts of testimony and mailed them off to General Douglas MacArthur in Connecticut for comment. Last week, like a thunderclap from Olympus, came Mac-Arthur's reply...
...size of West Virginia and as populous (2,056,000), Latvia is flat and forested, drained into the Baltic by the sprawling Western Dvina River, which brings wheat, dairy products and lumber down to the capital city of Riga (pop. 393,000). Over the centuries, the hardy Latvian peasants have been trampled underfoot by Viking raiders, Teutonic knights and Hansa merchantmen, Swedes, Poles, Germans and Great Russians. They have known only 22 years of national independence (from 1918 until 1940, when the Red army marched in), but the U.S. still technically recognizes their nonexistent sovereignty. Said President Roosevelt...
...pursuit of happiness as an inalienable right of mankind is an idea almost unrecognized in the development of other nations, but powerful in all aspects of American life. Happiness as a right first appeared in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Resolves, gained its most popular form in the Declaration of Independence, was cut out of the Constitution, but has bobbed up ever since as something to which all American felt they were entitled, but which none were able to define in the same terms...
...visit; so did such foreign notables as Charles Dickens. Clerc himself gave a special demonstration before the House of Representatives, later went to start the new Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Other Gallaudet-trained teachers, including his sons, also spread his mission -to new schools in New York, Kentucky, Virginia and Washington...