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Word: philadelphia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder whether having potholes filled quickly is worth dictatorship by a corrupt machine. He gives scant attention to the hallmark of successful tribalism: suppression of all weaker tribes. He seems not to recall that other cities from time to time, such as La Guardia's New York and Philadelphia during the Clark-Dilworth period, have managed to combine decency and effective government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mayorissimo | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...come in the form of a new theory that offers to identify humor with mathematical precision. John Paulos, mathematics professor at Philadelphia's Temple University, has worked out a way to plumb the anatomy of a joke by applying to it a marvelous flight of mathematical wizardry known as the catastrophe theory. It is based on a dazzle of equations so dense not even a child trained in the new math could grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Raise the U.S. Mirth Rate | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter Administration created a national controversy, predicted that Flood was "certain" to be indicted. But the closest anyone at the Genetti came to bringing up Flood's troubles was when County Commissioner Edmund Wideman chastised the nation's press for "unfair" coverage of the Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Home Folks Stand By Dan | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Philadelphia 4-Toronto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...Philadelphia 125, Knicks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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