Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home with 28?. Broadwayites found themselves asking: Where has Marie Powers been all our lives? The answer is that she has been out of the country most of the years since she left home in Mt. Carmel, Pa. at 17, to study singing in Italy. In Milan she sneaked into a friend's audition by Toscanini, got a job in La Scala for herself. She sang all over Europe, capably but not gloriously, and married an Italian nobleman. Her husband died just before the war, and she returned to the U.S. with 28? in her purse. She was singing...
Grad. In Meadville, Pa., Allegheny College awarded ex-G.I. Robert M. Rownd a diploma for an education that had been interrupted when he left his books and went off to soldier in the Civil War; the new A.B. is 102. In Brooklyn, proud Rose Altshuler, 67, was handed her grammar-school diploma, happily announced that she will start high school next fall, hopes to get through college by the time...
...final version, which hangs in London's Tate Gallery, is still a great crowd-puller, but a less sentimental age no longer weeps openly at the sight of it, as visitors once did. The smaller first version is the proudest possession of the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa...
...make its point, The Clearing House sent out copies of the old exam to teachers from York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third...