Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group, consisting of a small group of athletes and a larger group of good-will students, arrived in New York on the Saturnia yesterday and after spending today and tomorrow in New York will leave for the Middle West where they will visit Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, the Ford Plant and Niagara Falls. They will arrive in Cambridge early in the afternoon of October 4 following a trip through New York state and western Massachusetts...
...solemn judges, holding a little bunch of blue, red and yellow ribbons. They scrutinized a procession which passed through the hall, whispered among themselves. Old friends were the three; each year theirs is the task of pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found, was no easy job. Practiced eyes wandered to hoofs and rumps, lingered over well...
Chimed in Governor Paul Vories McNutt of Indiana, whose parole board once freed John Dillinger, and from one of whose county jails Dillinger escaped: "The ordinary man is not satisfied with the present-day administration of justice and does not hesitate...
Detailed information about the candidates was obtained from the schools and from members of the community from which they came and among the 250 applicants, 105 were the highest ranking scholars in their schools. Applications were restricted to boys living in and attending school in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Minnesota...
...sport goes back to two brothers named Thompson. After the Civil War they retreated to the Georgia backwoods. Because of their rebellious records, they were forbidden to carry firearms. They got their sustenance with bow & arrow. When after two years they returned to civilization, Maurice Thompson went to Indiana, wrote books on archery. Will Thompson went to Seattle, wrote his famed "The High Tide at Gettysburg," became attorney for Railroad Tycoon James J. Hill. Together, with Maurice for president, Will for champion, they founded the National Archery Association which last week held its 54th annual tournament at Storrs, Conn...