Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California is the leading State in the production of English walnuts. Alabama and Mississippi produce pecans. But now South Dakota gets into the race and proceeds to show us what a real nut is. I quote from the March 24 issue of TIME: "Adolph Hitler is a German heman and the greatest warrior that this world ever produced since history was first written and to be candid I believe he is a holy man." This letter was written from Custer...
Married. Kathrine Sarles Durstine, 20, youngest daughter of dynamic, Dakota-born Roy Durstine, famed Manhattan ad man; and James R. Griswold, 28, son of Dillard H. Griswold, banker; in Nashville...
McGeorge Bundy, A.B. Yale '40, of Boston; Ray, S. Cline '39, of Terre Haute, Ind; Hans J. Epstein, Brown University '41, of Providence, R. I.; Richard F. French '37, of Braintree; John C. Greene, South Dakota '38, of Vermillion, S. Dak.; H. Evan Runner, Wheaton College, Wheaton, III. '36, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Carroll M. Williams, University of Richmond '37, of Richmond, Va.; In addition, James G. Miller '37, of Lakewood, O., who has been a Junior Fellow for the past three years, has been re-elected for one year...
This year the award will go to a third or fourth year student in a college or university situated in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, or South Dakota...
Last week fog swirled over the Black Hills of South Dakota, over the sides of Mount Rushmore, ice formed a dripping glaze over four gigantic stone faces. Mount Rushmore had been finished long ago, but the 14-year chippings from these granite visages made it look unfinished: under their chins the mountainside fell away in a gigantic dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents -Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt-would never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life to the task...