Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2--The University of Pittsburgh football squad erroneously reported as on "sitdown strike." Members of the Varsity squad decided Saturday night on way back from Durham, N.C., where Duke was defeated Saturday that they would vote down any proposition of post season game. When, on Monday morning, they were asked to vote, they decided against participation...
...when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index's point was that a shy, soft-spoken U. S. chemist, Dr. Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh, was the first to isolate Vitamin C and recognize it as such, that he announced his isolation in 1932, three weeks before Szent-Györgyi announced...
...story was ferreted out by an Index reporter who was once an instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. With the help of King's friends, he traced the history of the vitamin in scientific journals. Dr. King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated...
First U. S. eisteddfod was in Carbondale, Pa., in 1850. Now they are held in many U. S. towns. The largest one in Warren, Ohio, every May, is seven years old, attracts Welsh from Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, the rural and mining areas of Ohio and West Virginia. Smaller eisteddfods are held, usually on New Year's Day, in such Pennsylvania industrial centres as Wilkes-Barre. Plymouth. Kingston, Allentown, and in Philadelphia. New York and Los Angeles...
...most important of traditional football rivalries, certainly the longest geographically is that formed seven years ago between St. Mary's of California & Fordham of New York. This year St. Mary's football season was spoiled by money troubles, and Fordham had been tied only by Pittsburgh. As expected, Fordham bruised and bumped St. Mary's all over the field, three times scored touchdowns that were called back. In the third period Joe Woitkoski finally scored the one that beat St. Mary...