Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, Pa. Sirs...
...Army football team for 1939, Midshipman Bergner was elected captain of the Navy football team for 1939. At last week's powwow, Kankakeemen, puffed with pride, appointed a delegation to see President Roosevelt to try to get next year's Army-Navy game transferred from Philadelphia to Chicago...
...exasperated because opposition to the teaching of evolution has not died out, although it is accepted as an ABC fact by every biologist of standing, and modern biology is unintelligible without it. As a horrendous example of pussyfooting, he quotes the declaration of a Philadelphia school principal...
Last month, when Philadelphia Composer Harl McDonald announced the first performance of a composition for women's chorus and orchestra commemorating the Lindbergh kidnapping, Philadelphians were apprehensive...
Last week Philadelphia socialites took their apprehensions to the Academy of Music to hear Composer McDonald's new opus, entitled Lament for the Stolen. As the Philadelphia Orchestra and a black-&-blue clad chorus of 216 swung out under Eugene Ormandy's baton, listeners jumped and groped for their program notes. There they were partially reassured by reading: "The whole chorus, unaccompanied, announces fear and shock in a series of neoprimitive wails, punctuated by a shriek- the orchestra is agitated, and ... the soprano section speaks the words 'This is a terrible thing to be done...