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Word: pittsburgh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presbyterian minister, he went to Princeton (class of '04), studied law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. After he had hung out his shingle in Pittsburgh, he scraped up $5,000 for an oil driller's rig and took a lease on some property not five miles from home. With beginner's luck, he struck. Since then he has followed the wildcatters from western Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He made a fortune, lost most of it in the 1929 crash, returned to the law practice he had never quite abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Big Red & The Standpatters | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...Memoriam. In Pittsburgh, Burglar Frank Reymer told police how he made sure of quiet spots to work in: he studiously read newspaper obituaries, looted houses while the bereaved were off to the funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Brooklyn last week, two Pittsburgh sportwriters grabbed a cab after the ball game. They asked the cab driver what he thought of his Dodgers. The elaborately bored driver replied curtly: "In Brooklyn we're even turning off the television sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boycott in Brooklyn | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Results | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania: F. J. Torrance Baker '38, 341 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Head Asks '48 To Join Locals | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

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