Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...
...fortunate coincidence, just about the time Irish got basketball going at the Garden, a West Virginian named Clair Bee took over basketball coaching at Brooklyn's Long Island University. L.I.U. basketball teams have always been excellent, sometimes terrific; they have won the Invitation Tournament twice and played two seasons undefeated. Bee's boys, with their tremendous local draw, have been a solid anchor to windward for Irish...
...Around 1,500,000: Mrs. Porter's Girl of the Limberlost and Laddie; John Fox Jr.'s Trail of the Lonesome Pine; Owen Wister's The Virginian; Harold Bell Wright's The Winning of Barbara Worth; Jack London's Call of the Wild; J. L. Hurlbut's Story of the Bible; Wells's Outline of History...
...Virginian named Lingan Alan Warren to put his ideas into practice. They set up the MacMarr chain in the Pacific Northwest, merged it with Safeway, later acquired Sanitary Stores in the South. Last year the Merrill-Warren chains grossed $399,322,000, earned...
...group will also participate in a Virginian statewide musical festival along with the Harvard Glee Club, the Duke University Men and Women's Glee Club, and the Choral Society of the State Teachers College...