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Word: penna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is blood about to be spilled, so please enlighten us, for sake of some threatened friendships and some folding green stuff to boot. Could it be Penna., Mo., Va., Conn., Calif., or even La., we dunno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mothers Answered | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Good-humored Toney Penna, who tensed up on one hole and asked the gallery to start talking because "things are too darn quiet." The gallery whooped it up and Penna missed a 10 ft. putt. He then went on a practice green and canned 96 in succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Comes Back | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...refused to "put the lid on." At 7 p.m., in a 1,100-word statement, the President gave Secretary of War Stimson complete power over every one of the 233,670 miles of railroad track in the U.S., from the one-mile-long Valley Railroad in McKean County, Penna. to the $2,000,000,000 Pennsy (24,928 miles). The Secretary may even take over subways, tunnels and streetcar lines, if need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strong Arm | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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