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Allentown   /ˈæləntˌaʊn/   Listen
Allentown

noun
1.
A city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial center.





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"Allentown" Quotes from Famous Books



... In Allentown, Pennsylvania, which has a large German population, I heard of a German-American mother named Roth, who was so zealous in her loyalty to the United States that she rose at five o'clock on the day following the President's assassination and enlisted ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... also enter an earnest protest against the importation, upon any terms, of such words as "ironoxydulcarbonate," "ironoxydhydrate," and the adjective "anhydrate." Some descriptions of considerable imaginative power have found place even in the directory of works. From the description of the Allentown furnaces we learn, with some surprise, that "no finer object of art invites the artist"; and again, "that the repose of bygone centuries seems to sit upon its immense walls, while the roaring energy of the present day fills it with a truer and better life than the revelry of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... Springfield leads the entire batting list with the fat percentage of .416. Patchen of Scranton was second with .392, and Mulvey of Allentown-Yonkers was third, .391. All three of these are ahead of Drauby's record, .379, which led the Eastern League the previous year. Rudderham led the ...
— Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 • Edited by Henry Chadwick


Words linked to "Allentown" :   urban center, pa, Keystone State, Pennsylvania, city, metropolis


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