Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...
Professor Wambaugh received the degree of LL.B. from the University in 1880 and of LL.D. from University of Iowa in 1892, from Western Reserve University in 1908 and from Dartmouth in 1908. He was professor of law at the State University of Iowa from 1889 to 1892 and has been professor of law at the University since then, becoming Langdell Professor...
Your literary editor must be a "native New Yorker," born in Bohunk, Iowa, and "never been outside of New York in his life." He exhibits the provincial intolerance and superiority so often seen in the uncultured New York business...
...Ohio comes second vith 558,720,000; Pennsylvania third with 552,864,150. Fourth is Michigan, home of motor industry with 390,395,250, while Texas, home of distances and oil wells, runs fifth with 360,770,400. The next five (in order) are: Indiana with 293,267,250; Iowa with 277,257,600; Missouri with 236,349, 225,000; Wisconsin with 236,349, 450; Minnesota with 226,546,650. No figures are reported for the four states lacking...
...martyr to the cause of Prohibition," declared Mrs. Abbie Anderson, who is Recording Secretary of the Iowa...