Word: penn
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...residents of East Germantown, Ind., were evacuated when 61 cars of a 110-car Penn Central train were derailed, spraying the area with chemicals that set fires and sparked explosions. In Texas, 13 cars of a Kansas City South ern freight train carrying inflammable liquefied gas were derailed south of Texarkana. Six families were evacuated when a fire seemed likely. No one was injured in the two derailments. But the rolling fright continues...
Clearing the Clergy. Such judgments, according to Chadwick Hansen, professor of American Studies at Penn State, are remarkably misleading. Beyond the fact that witchcraft trials resulted in 20 executions, he says, everything in the popular tradition is false. Far from inciting tragedy, the clergy "acted throughout as a restraint upon the proceedings and it was their misgivings which finally brought the trials to an end." (Clergymen had much influence but no office; the Bay Colony was no theocracy.) The afflicted girls, whose courtroom convulsions at the sight of the accused convinced the judges, were not spiteful exhibitionists, but felt themselves...
...Princeton yesterday, the Tigers trounced Penn, 8-1, in a crucial Eastern League contest to give Harvard almost a sure tie for first place in the league with those two teams. The Crimson lost a tight early-season match to the Quakers, then featuring a stacked lineup, but rallied to win a spectacular victory over powerful Princeton Saturday...
Princeton, 3-0 in the Ivy League, has established itself as the team to beat in the league this year. Yesterday the Tiger whipped Penn...
...Crimson team will also be thinking of the Penn-Princeton contest today on the slow Tiger courts. If the Tigers beat Penn, Harvard has a strong chance to be part of a three-way tie for first place in the League. The Crimson could re-enact last season's feat when the netmen, considered prospects for third place at best, finally tied for first place...