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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also announced were the final castings for the production, which is slated for December 15 and 16 in Agassiz Theatre. Virginia Carrol '51 plays the part of Lysistrata, who induces the women of Greece to protest against the Peloponnesian War by refusing to go to bed with their husbands and any other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Officialdom Lifts Ban on 'Vulgar' Play After Dean Sees Text | 11/15/1950 | See Source »

Increases in Congressmen-California, 7; Florida, 2; one each for Maryland, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: Big Shuffle | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Eliot House residents recently named Thomas F. Cavanaugh, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, C. Oliver Iselin, Ill, of Middleburg, Virginia, and Donald H. Kaplan, of Howitt, New York, as senior representatives on the House Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Elects | 11/3/1950 | See Source »

...mimicry. He gave up tobacco 25 years ago. He has a celebrated partiality for an old-fashioned before dinner. On a recent occasion, when a host served only sherry, Almond frowned, then cracked: "Well, I guess I'll have to have an old-fashioned sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Sic 'Em, Ned | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Negro law student last June (TIME, June 12), it set other Southern states to anxious self-appraisal. The key point in the court's decision: if Negro education is "separate" (segregated), it must be equal in quality to that in white schools. On that principle, the University of Virginia has decided to admit a Negro to its law school this fall, and the attorney general of Tennessee has advised the University of Tennessee to do the same. In North Carolina last week, the decision went the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Separate but Equal | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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