Word: philadelphia
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...more jokes-not even an easy aside like, "To a dog, every day is Saturday." The American Kennel Club observed the 100th anniversary of its founding this year in Philadelphia. It was founded, in fact, on Sept. 17, 1884, right there in Philadelphia. To mark the occasion, the AKC put together the largest dog show ever held in North America. It brought more than 8,000 dogs to the Philadelphia Civic Center. Security was tighter than a rusted nut. Tighter than it had been a month before during the vice-presidential debate in the same spot, according to a visitor...
Rosenthal and Stiel ignited newspapers on top of a beer keg in order to "free the lavaratory of odor," then extinguished the blaze and left for Philadelphia to broadcast the Harvard Pennsylvania football game for the campus radio station Johnson said...
...Born in Philadelphia to a door-to-door salesman and his English-born wife, Gloria Rachel Bloom began rebelling in college. As an English honors major at the University of Pennsylvania, she insisted, despite faculty reservations, upon doing her thesis on black Novelists James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. She met a young man in her freshman year, married him as a sophomore, gave birth to a daughter in her junior year and got a divorce before graduating. Allred went on to earn a master's degree in English education at New York University, taught at an all-black boys...
Dallas 26, Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia 114, New Jersey...