Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yeadon, Pa...
...This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...
Candidate Willkie hadn't been hit yet; rotten-eggers are notoriously inaccurate. But people were really trying: eggs, a cantaloupe, a rock, a stick had been pitched at him. In Homestead, Pa., police confiscated an unknown quantity of tomatoes and apple cores from some twelve-year-old politicians; in Philadelphia, one Israel Kirby, 65-who happens to have been born in Rushville, Ind.-was arrested with a dozen eggs at a Shibe Park Willkie speech; had to prove they were eating, not throwing eggs...
Last week Old Bo-Bo brought his Pa, his Ma and his three sisters up from Hartsville, S. C. to watch him play in his first World Series. Father Newsom had never seen a World Series game, had only once in his 68 years been in a big-league ball park. With characteristic aplomb, Old Showboat predicted that he would win two World Series games. "Yeah, I'll outpitch Derringer," he drawled...
...George School, Pa. pupils drew plans and specifications for a model town, complete with houses, schools, parks, water, sewage, hospital, police, stores, industry...