Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entanglements and gave them 30 years of peace in which to develop their resources-industrial, commercial, maritime and artistic. Then began a surge to empire: Elizabeth's privateers, Drake and Frobisher, singed the beard of the Spaniard, Sir Walter Raleigh planted the royal standard in the forests of Virginia, and England's gallant little fleet repulsed the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth queened it over an age crowded with greatness, which nourished such figures as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. She was the strongest queen and the most vital woman ever to rule England...
During a heated debate in Washington on whether District of Columbia dog licenses should be raised from $3 to $5, Virginia's Representative Howard W. Smith sounded a warning: "Cats, semi-wild ones, many with rabies, are roaming Virginia. People are being attacked in their front yards . . . I'm all for doing something about cats, perhaps licensing them. They tell me cats are roaming animals. These wild ones may soon roam into the District...
President Conant last night advocated a ten-point program to revamp the educational pattern of the United States within the next decade. He proposed the plan in the last of three lectures at the University of Virginia on "Education and Liberty...
...always wanted to see where they make such clever people," she said on surveying the Yard. Virginia's California blood, however, forced her out of the wind before the tour was completed...
...town with her father for a few days, Virginia saw this part of Cambridge from the arm of Roger A. Moore '53, vice-president of the Young Republicans Club. She was impressed...