Search Details

Word: mason-dixon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...candidates (six Democrats and two Republicans) traveled to the Arkansas capital to address the Southern Legislative Conference, a convocation of 1,600 legislators from 15 states. This was merely the opening rehearsal for the real show: Mega-Tuesday, coming next March 8, when voters in 14 states below the Mason-Dixon Line will select roughly one-quarter of the delegates to the Democratic and Republican conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Songs of the South | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

WALKER PERCY is arguably the greatest living Southern novelist. His canon is as solid as any contemporary American's, north or south of the Mason-Dixon. The Moviegoer, Percy's first and best novel, received the National Book Award in 1962 and the works that followed--The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and The Second Coming--established a critical and commercial cult following that was, and is, highly deserved...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Thanatos Is Comin' to Town | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard refused to play without him, making Pierce the first black to play in an intersectional game below the Mason-Dixon line...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: How to Strangle a Bulldog | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...march. McElwee was born and raised in Charlotte, N.C., so the trip was to be a kind of homecoming. He had been obsessed with Sherman's legacy since coming North to school and was all set to film a serious documentary about the man whose infamy lives below the Mason-Dixon line. Taking a quick detour in New York to bivouac with his girlfriend, McElwee...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: McElwee's Sherman | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Because before the Crimson had played two full minutes south of the Mason-Dixon line, the world had, in fact, turned upside down...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Tearing Up Tierra Del Fuego | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next