Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London had its 200th raid alarm. Liverpool had its 145th since Aug. 1. Serious spot damage fell upon Liverpool docks, factories, stores, office buildings. People flocked into the Mersey tunnel, risking pneumonia. The industrial Midlands came in for 24 hours of "hammer blows," but a correspondent who had just toured from Newcastle and York through the Midlands reported their production capacity virtually untouched. To raise morale and production, honor badges were issued to aircraft workers who stayed on the job throughout raids...
...Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania celebrated its 200th anniversary by crushing Yale, 50-to-7, the worst defeat in Yale's 68 years of football...
Anniversaries. The snug little town of Torrington, Conn., its 200th, which it celebrated with pageant, parade, a speech by Governor Raymond Earl Baldwin; the tight little isle of England, its 874th since invasion and defeat by William (of Normandy) the Conqueror...
...celebrate while there was still time, Pennsylvania had anticipated its actual 200th anniversary by 15 years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...
Science, medicine, education, social study, the arts, the humanities, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt took their turns on the stage last week in Philadelphia as the University of Pennsylvania celebrated its 200th birthday (see p. 43). High lights in science...