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Keystone State   /kˈistˌoʊn steɪt/   Listen
noun
Keystone State  n.  Pennsylvania; a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States, at the time of formation of the Constitution.






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"Keystone state" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fact that the lordly palace of the Federal government at once overshadows and turns its back upon the humbler tenements of the States. A line of these, drawn up in close order, shoulder to shoulder, is ranged, hard by, against the tall fence that encloses the grounds. The Keystone State, as beseems her, heads the line by the left flank. Then come, in due order, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Delaware. New Jersey and Kansas stand proudly apart, officer-like, on the opposite ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various



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