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Word: arithmetick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this old ivy puzzle is the University of Pennsylvania. Penn dates its founding from 1740 and the erection of a building which eleven years later opened '"for the instruction of poor Children gratis in Reading, Writing and Arithmetick." The Academy and Charitable School, as it was originally titled, was actually chartered as a college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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