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Word: penns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "The ownership of property . . . comes as a reward for work; it's no longer a passport to the good graces of the Tory Party," is the son of a surgeon and married to the daughter of the late Viscount Dawson of Penn, who used to sign George V's medical bulletins. Eccles' wife, Sybil, is dark, intelligent, and rated about the party's best woman speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The British Election: The Tories | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Coach Bert Haines of Harvard said last night that he had no comment to make on the lightweight crew situation at Penn and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Drops 150 lb: Crew Coach | 10/13/1951 | See Source »

...would be easy to go on discussing the fine points in this fetching musical. Robert Penn, a stirring balladeer, was well received by the audience as were many other individual members of the cast, too many to single...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

Pennsylvania, founded (with some historical doubts on the subject) in 1740 is and has traditionally been, an Ivy School. Of late, however (let's say 1939), Penn has dubiously begun to win football games. Football and Penn have become synonymous with "large city school and amateur professionalism" in that sport. Today they are embarking on a great new career of intersectional mayhem, opening with California at Philadelphia. Two great states are meeting, carrying with them not only intersectional football implications, but the political ambitions of a nationally minded University president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bitter Fruit | 10/3/1951 | See Source »

Gummere has worked as Chairman of the Committee on Admissions since 1935 when he came from the Penn Charter School. One of his first major tasks was to implement the National Scholarship Program of President Conant. In so doing Gummere expanded what had been a small admissions program into a nationwide system...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Bender Quits Dean's Office for Admissions | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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