Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Impressed by the jibe, the committeemen held a session, last week, to find a successor to Borglum. They considered, one by one, the names of 100 famed sculptors, warily blackballed all whose reputations disclosed the least hint of tombstone-cutting, chose, at length, a Virginian sculptor, Augustus Lukeman...
...lineup Coach, Fisher will start this afternoon is undoubtedly his strongest combination. With the exception of Beals for Chase at the left outpost, the line in the same which was chosen for Team A the beginning of the second week of practice. It out-weighs the Virginian line by three pounds a man, and although it has not been tested in a game as the visitor's line has, it is given the odds in about all the points of the game...
...Clem L. Shaver, wife of the National Campaign Manager of the Democratic Party, wrote a letter to the Fairmont West Virginian in which she said in part...
...Chesapeake & Ohio. In the late Winter and Spring, the heavy buying of Erie on the Stock Exchange occasioned much comment. Evidently much of it was for the Van Sweringens. The next road due to be acquired, the story goes, is the Pere Marquette, and then perhaps the Virginian and the Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...reputation from which it has barely recovered. During the eighteenth century especially it fared evilly among the colonists of the New World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists...