Word: pennsylvanian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absence of Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who has been in London, was getting to be a campus issue. "Where's Dr. Stassen?" cried the undergraduate Daily Pennsylvanian. "This question has been asked more by the incoming freshman class than the directions to College Hall . . . And we realize what a hard year the first one is. But all good things must come to an end and we believe that Dr. Stassen unnecessarily missed the opening peal of the school bell. After all, the European trip was his third vacation, he'd just returned from Maine...
...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...
...Shot. The odds on Man o' War were so prohibitive that few people bothered to bet on him-though Plunger "Chicago" O'Brien once wagered $100,000 on him at 1-to-100, and picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were...
Guests and Hosts. The sergeant, a squat Pennsylvanian with a blackly bearded chin and soft black eyes, said that if I'd come out to his jeep I could have some fried potatoes and coffee. As I walked out, I became aware that we were guests. The family whose house the troop had taken was seated in a thickly walled and ceilinged room on the ground level. A young girl, perhaps 15, sat perfectly still and rigid, stretched out in an armchair. As I stepped across her legs, she did not move or speak. All her words were...
...Lowe-Porter, née Helen Tracy Porter, 68, is a native Pennsylvanian...