Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia farmer, Mr. Will attended normal school. He came to Washington in 1910 and got a job in the Census Bureau, but soon switched to State. In his 37 years of service, he has served under twelve Secretaries. Of them all, he considers Charles Evans Hughes (1921-25) the ablest. "A dignified man who looked the part-the outstanding Secretary of his time," says Mr. Will...
Harry Truman led the Democratic prospects with 64 votes. Right behind were Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas with 63, and Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Byrd...
...important secretarial jobs at Harvard belongs to Miss Virginia Proctor. As President Conant's secretary, she make all his appointments, types his speeches, keeps a schedule calendar three months in advance, and handles between fifty and a hundred letters every day. She has been on President Conant's staff for the past five years...
...ancient idea that madness is connected with the moon's phases ("lunacy") may have had something in it after all: a Virginia psychiatrist and a Washington astronomer found that of 2,875 women admitted to a state hospital, the greatest number entered at full moon; among 2,984 men, admissions were heaviest right after the new moon. Just what did the moon have to do with it? The two scientists didn't begin to know: they just had their figures...
...even in this stern mood, the Virginia teachers did not try to get rid of intercollegiate football or other sports. They want to see football continued, but only as a sport, not a business. It is hard for any college now to turn its back on potential football revenues, but if Virginia and other big-time colleges balance the moral with the financial factors, they can hardly fail to come to the same conclusions as the Virginia faculty...