Word: pennsylvania
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James Curtis Hepburn of Milton, Pa. disappointed his parents by not becoming a minister. Instead, he studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him and his young wife to China. A few years later malaria forced them to return, and Dr. Hepburn settled down to 13 years of practice in New York City...
Loewy's first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited...
...Yale 0 7 0 6-13 Rutgers 0 14 0 0-14 Princeton 7 13 14 0-34 Columbia 0 0 0 0-0 Cornell 7 13 0 34-54 Army 13 14 7 6-40 V.M.I. 0 0 7 7-14 Pittsburgh 6 7 7 2-22 Pennsylvania 0 14 7 0-21 Brown 14 7 0 7-28 Western Reserve 0 7 7 13-33 Syracuse 7 7 0 7-21 Penn State 6 7 7 13-33 Scranton 0 6 0 0-6 Boston Univ. 20 0 13 13-46 Georgetown 0 0 0 0-0 Fordham...
...aide to the Secretary of War, and since 1946 governor of the Virgin Islands. Lawyer Hastie became the first Negro on the federal bench when he was appointed U.S. district judge in the Virgin Islands in 1937. Last week he was named to the third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman Ben Davis, the other outstanding Negro member...
...mineworkers whose own welfare and retirement fund was now shut off a few had their own ideas about a defense fund. "We believe a kitty should be raised to alleviate poverty in the mining fields first," said a 500-member Pennsylvania local of the U.M.W. in a telegram to Lewis. ". . . Charity begins at home...