Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
Harvard Club of Western Michigan, Merlin C. Findlay, 1103 People's National Bank Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania, F. J. Torrance Baker '38, 341 Fourth ave., Pittsburgh; Harvard Club of Worcester, Chester W. Cook '19, 75 Park...
...team will speak against the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore college this afternoon and evening, and against Temple and Johns Hopkins tomorrow...
...Pennsylvania, paleontologists were studying traces of another two-legged monster more ancient and primitive than man. About two weeks ago, Michael Kosinski, a contractor, noticed some curious tracks in a sandstone ledge near Hallton, 90 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. He told his brother James, who works for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. James took plaster casts of the tracks to Dr. J. LeRoy Kay, who hurried out for a first-hand look at them...
Since the tracks are arranged opposite each other in pairs, not in strides, the creature must have hopped. And the hops were short-only about a foot long. It must have been a clumsy monster that hopped sluggishly under the giant ferns and spreading horsetail trees which later became Pennsylvania's famous coal. But it was doing all right for its period: vertebrates had only recently learned how to live on the land at all. Short hops were a big improvement on slow, fishlike floundering...