Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YORK--New York Giants 17, Philadelphia Eagles...
...return, the directors announced: 1) that Conductor Stokowski had signed up for eleven concerts next spring, and 2) that "in recognition of musical achievement" the post of music director would be revived for Conductor Ormandy. For happy Violinist Ormandy this meant more pay, official confirmation that he is Philadelphia's first fiddle...
...Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. He had traveled 3,000 miles by plane, had tramped 155 miles on foot, had taken 2,860 strokes on 600 holes, had worn out two dozen pair of gloves, had not lost a ball. His lowest score was 77, his highest...
...recent years Charles Edgar Duryea, as a Philadelphia consulting engineer, lived in simple gentility in the Tioga section, writing letters in simplified spelling, championing prohibition, loans at 1% to make America the world's workshop, Esperanto, anti-Darwinism, community ownership of natural wealth, and a slipknot of his own devising. Philadelphia reporters liked to drop in and chat with him on his birthdays, listen to him play his ancient reed organ. They went around to the little house in North 18th Street one day last week, but not to get a birthday story. They came to ask about...
...Franklin's career (Author Van Doren lists 27 subjects or episodes treated for the first time) and readers who stay with it come back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards...