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Three - Troublesome Toshes

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For the third time you removed the surface, and you saw three lines you couldn't make any sense of:

$\text{Sad Wally, ugliest Alcatraz impala, mimeo abhorrer, lava continuo, kneels.}$
$\text{Mean nerd met imperiled underservant; cuckoo kisses Ina Nagle.}$

$\text{Met nerd, men worry cello neoclassicism negate Icaria tox lava.}$

Gentle Reminder - May or May Not be Useful

All letters are useful, but some letters are more useful than others.

Hint

usefulness level 1

The number of useful letters within each word is the same.

usefulness level 2

The number in Hint 1 is 2.

Answer

If you take the first and last letters of each word, you get the abbreviation for a US state. Then for each of the three lines, the states listed spell out a letter if you look at them on a map.

Sad Wally, ugliest Alcatraz impala, mimeo abhorrer, lava continuo, kneels.

South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado, Kansas

spells out "A"

Mean nerd met imperiled underservant; cuckoo kisses Ina Nagle.

Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska

spells out "G"

Met nerd, men worry cello neoclassicism negate Icaria tox lava.

Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Louisiana

spells out "E"

So the answer is:

AGE