Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Penn was openhanded in deeding land to Quakers newly arrived in the New World; in 1687 a family of early Pennsylvanians named Shallcross got an enormous tract simply by promising him a minute portion of their annual crop. But there was reason for Penn's generosity to the Shallcrosses. The land was no bargain-it was ten miles northeast of Penn's "greene Country Towne" and in the middle of an Indian-infested wilderness. Neither remoteness nor danger, however, dismayed the Shallcrosses. They built a big stone house-with iron shutters to stop flaming arrows and musket...
...forth across Pudge's nose until it was raw and bleeding, ordered opposing linemen to step on his knuckles, kick him in the shins. Pudge passed the test, became a fleet-footed guard* on the Yale team of 1888 that scored 698 points against the likes of Penn, Rutgers and Princeton, and was never scored on itself...
...there. Adapted from Playwright Hayes's novel, it tells of life in Rome just after the 1944 liberation, when, for impoverished Italians, liberation also spelled defeat, and Allied soldiers were resented as pocket-jingling conquerors. The play tells in particular of a G.I. and an Italian girl (Leo Penn and Betty Miller) who come together because he is lonely and she is hungry, and share a room pretending to be husband and wife. Theirs is no wartime idyl; the girl loathes her role and denounces the man with a full G.I. bill of wrongs. He-decent, perplexed, finally irritated...
Whatley also scored many points for the varsity in individual free-style events. He finished second in the 220-yard free-style races against M.I.T., Brown, and Penn, and won the 220 in 2:16.1 against Columbia late in the season...
...Crimson tied four ways with Cornell, Rutgers, and Yale, each college earning three points. Pittsburgh, one of the classiest teams in the country, took tournament honors with 37 points. Penn State was second with 25 points...