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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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To avoid repercussions at her job at Alabama State College, however, Robinson passed public leadership of the protest over to black ministers, including King.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Penn State freshman Gavin McKenna, 18, was arraigned Wednesday and released on $20,000 unsecured bail, according to the State College Police Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Cannon was born in New York City and raised in Reno, Nev., where he attended the University of Nevada in Reno and later San Francisco State College.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2025

Other co-authors include Jiangang Liao, professor of public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, and Camille Moeckel, a fourth-year medical student and research associate at Penn State College of Medicine.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

It had recently been accredited to offer four- year degrees and had come to be called West Virginia State College.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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