Word: elizabethtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...
Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
What Houghton does provide is a library of more than 6,000 recordings, produced at Muzak's own $1,000,000 plant in Elizabethtown, Ky. With these, Muzak maps out for its local "franchisers" complete daily, weekly and monthly programs tailored to the needs of individual customers...
Something Borrowed. In Elizabethtown, Ky., police interrupted the honeymoon of Frank Kenney, who had bought a ring and marriage license with bad checks, driven away with his bride in a stolen...