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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kilmer S. McCully '55 of Thayer Hall and Alexander, Virginia was elected captain of the Yardling team before the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling, Varsity Fencers Win | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Virginia . . ." In Great Bend, Kans., six weeks after a jolly old gentleman with white whiskers drove off without paying for a tankful of gasoline, Service Station Owner Jack Ames got a letter containing $3.31 in cash and a message: "Thank you for the loan . . . Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Honor Graduate. In Columbus, Ohio, police searched for a patient who had wandered off from the West Virginia State Mental Hospital, finally found him working as an attendant in the Ohio State Mental Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...tell 'em a little tale," he begged. "Tell 'em I'm old enough to join the Army." His mother made him wait until he was 17, but she was delighted. Connie's father, a thin, patient man, had toiled as a West Virginia coal miner for 38 years, and then, seeking opportunity, had moved the family to the noisy streets of The Bronx. All he had found were part-time jobs as a porter and sexton. In Mrs. Charlton's mind, soldiering would be a fine career. When Connie finished his freshman year in high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Man's a Man | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...satisfaction, he discusses his sex life and indulges in bland reveries on his numerous seductions. Fellow F.F.V.s who, he remembers, never bought his books will squirm at some of his recollections, if they ever hear about them. Remembers Cabell: "In practice, among the upper circles of the state of Virginia ... a fair number of accessible young gentlewomen whose social standing stayed unquestioned, whether as wives or as spinsters, were no whit averse to extreme amorous dalliance if only you took sane precautions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Dominion Casanova | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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