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Palo Alto

noun

A university town in California.

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"Palo Alto" Quotes from Famous Books

... into Las Tunas from all directions; a newspaper from Sancti Spiritus stated that two thousand men had been despatched from the nearest trocha. It was determined to proceed during the night to Palo Alto, fifty miles to the eastward, the Helena remaining at Las Tunas to confirm the Spaniards in the belief that an attempt was to be ...

— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

... could have overwhelmed him and annihilated his whole force. The very audacity of the little American army, however, seemed to paralyze the Mexicans who practically made no resistance until Taylor reached a place called Palo Alto, which in ...

— On the Trail of Grant and Lee • Frederick Trevor Hill

... achievements. The story of all republics and of all free governments shows this. We know in the case now before us, that so soon as brilliant success had attended General Taylor's operations on the Rio Grande, at Palo Alto, and Monterey, spontaneous nominations of him ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... himself until after the train had passed Palo Alto, when others joined him. The first to emerge on the platform was a Japanese. Farrel favored him with a cool, contemptuous scrutiny, for he was a Californian and did not hold the members of this ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

Words linked to "Palo Alto" : town, ca, Stanford University, Golden State, Stanford, Calif., California