Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canteen, Home in Indiana] was interrupted by the war, shows up as one of Hollywood's most unaffected and likable juveniles. Three young unknowns, intelligently entrusted with important roles, prove themselves more than worthy. The new faces, which are likely to be familiar ones soon...
...Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio, temperatures fell to freezing as the blizzard laid a sheet of ice and left a trail of wreckage over the land. The night it hit Milwaukee it was going 60 miles an hour, spitting lightning and roaring like Aeolus. Milwaukee stopped breathing. Streetcars, buses, automobiles stalled; in many cases their passengers slept in them. People were trapped everywhere-a phenomenal number of them in bars. After twelve hours, the fire department was snowed in; snowplows could not budge through the 10-foot drifts. Five people who tried to buck their way home through the shot...
...casual-yet-clipped tones in which Allport delivers these lectures fascinate those who like to classify accents, and in fact mirror much of his past. He was born in Indiana in 1897, went to school in Cleveland, got his AB from Harvard in 1919, and did graduate work in German universities before accepting a teaching job at Roberts College, in Istanbul. The classes at Roberts were conducted in English, but no one could understand him unless he spoke a brand called "Standard London" English. Learning to mouth this dialect on pain of being incomprehensible resulted in his present, pleasant...
...whiz at English and math, he graduated at the head of his class from Indiana's Culver Military Academy, went on to the University of Virginia to study law. He spent more time playing poker and shooting craps. He did not bother to finish his first year because in April, at the age of 19, he married Anita O'Keeffe,* a girl from Sun Prairie, Wis., whom he had met at a party in Charlottesville...
Flint's performance was noteworthy in that he nosed out highly-regarded Haakon Lidman, of Sweden, and Bill Mitchell, a topflight entry from Indiana. Dillard set a new meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...