Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on the warmest day--and summer is sultry in the Virginia Piedmont--a cool breeze skims across the hilltop of Monticello. The trees are always moving, the branches opening and closing holes through which appear glimpses of the surrounding hills, or of the little red and white village of Charlottesville a mile away. Down below in the valleys the woods have been cleared, the red earth turned and turned again with the plow, and planted with seed, so that the valley floor is flecked with patches of fertile green and yellow. All around are the gentle foothills...