Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow my subscription to lapse without any specific order to stop the same. I hereby authorize you to draw on me whenever I am as far in arrears as you consider seemly. I intend to keep TIME, the rest of my life. E. S. EVANS, M. D. Grinnell, Iowa...
...American Magazine for November reported the discovery, through geography and statistics, of "the average American citizen." The man was one Roy Lewis Gray, clothing merchant, of Fort Madison, Iowa, native born, aged 43, not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, not bald, not dark, not light, not Wet, not a Dry, with a wife, son, daughter, pipe, radio, three-year-old automobile. Average Mr. Gray visited Chicago last week. There he bought a picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal...
Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...
...trembled as strong teams galloped to & fro. Northwestern's to & fro went farther than Ohio State's; score 19-13. Wisconsin could go neither to nor fro against Michigan, losing 14-0. Minnesota and Indiana matched to for to and fro for fro, tying 14-14. True also for Iowa State and Illinois; 12-12. Against Purdue a toe helped Chicago to turn a tie into a trimming...
...recent issue of the American Magazine has conferred a new and unhackneyed honor upon a citizen of Iowa. He was neither the Best nor the Most in his class at college, nor has he in after life attained unusual success. He is, in brief the most average man in the United States: driving the average car, having the average number in his family, the average social affiliations, and the average views, apparently, on everything...