Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Individual champion of the large field will, however, be decided in match play tomorrow and Monday. The low 16 qualifiers from the 96 entries will be eligible for match play. Sixteen colleges have entered the meet, including all Ivy League institutions and others such as Virginia...
...Hoover's part. He had no official preconvention campaign manager, and he made no political speeches before his party met at Kansas City and nominated him on the first ballot. The election was a sweep: 40 states for Hoover (including such Democratic strongholds as Texas, North Carolina and Virginia), only eight for Al Smith. "I came to the White House with a program of vigorous policies," adds Herbert Hoover. "But instead of being able to devote my four years wholly to these purposes I was to be overtaken by the economic hurricane which sprang from the delayed consequences...
...Worcester, Virginia Mistark, a 14-year-old high-school student, waited for more than half an hour to give Taft a yellow daffodil. He smiled and stuck the flower into his lapel. When Virginia remarked that she might be late for class, he took her notebook and penned a note to her teacher: "Please excuse Virginia Mistark for being late. I delayed her. Robert A. Taft...
...VIRGINIA ROSE...
Juniors, seniors, and recent graduates are eligible for the course, which may be taken in either one or two summers, with a commission after successful completion of training. The program is held at the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia and provides basic theoretical and military instruction. The first part of the course emphasizes indoctrination in "Marine Corps concepts...