Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When this state was formed 93 years ago there was a fight over the name. Many people now believe that West Virginia is merely western Virginia. Numerous residents of the state, in giving their addresses on out-of-state hotel registers, write "West (by God) Virginia." While Kanawha, Westsylvania, Augusta and others have been discussed in the legislative halls, the name which has won the widest favor is "Acadia," and means "a happy, prosperous land." The state would thus be the first in the alphabetical list of states and entitled to nominate Presidents ahead of Alabama. As it is, West...
...high-ceilinged back parlor of the Richmond mansion of Virginia's late Novelist Ellen Glasgow, the deans and presidents of twelve colleges and universities in the area gathered one day last week for a kind of meeting that is all too rare in the world of U.S. higher education. All members of the Richmond Area University Center, they had come not only to exchange ideas but to plan a series of projects together that would have been impossible for any one campus to try alone. In the last ten years, the educators had learned an important lesson: the best...
...YORK, Feb. 13--The second dock strike in three months today held tight grip on Atlantic ports from Maine to Virginia. Mile upon mile of busy waterfront subsided to almost ghostlike silence...
...Beta Kappa was originally founded in 1776 at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Three years later Elisha Parmele, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1778, secured charters to extend the society to both Harvard and Yale. Finally on September 5, 1781, the Alpha of Massachusetts was founded in Cambridge and has since had an uninterrupted existence--unlike the Yale, which was inactive from 1871 to 1884--of 175 years...
...John's to coach intramural basketball and baseball, played extracurricular bridge and pool. As a World War II pre-aviation cadet whose initials doomed him to the nickname "V.D.," he became adept at poker. Pooling resources with a buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours a day, won $3,000 in a year. Says Whipkey: "He figures the percentage to the last decimal. On the TV show, he follows the old Black Jack rule, 'Always hit 16, always stick on 18.' Once on TV when Charlie...