Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midwestern gridirons 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...
Having already experimented in the Philippines, Burma, Mexico, Mr. Ford despatched Professor Carl Larue of the University of Michigan to investigate last year in Brazil. Professor Larue reported favorably. Then Mr. Ford asked for and received a concession of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres in Para, in the Amazon Valley, a black jungle along the Tapajos River, that crawls all the way from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash...
...Florentine Choir will give 60 concerts in the U. S. & Canada. The tour goes through New Jersey. Pittsburgh, the Middle West, up into Wisconsin, Minnesota, on to the Pacific Coast, back through the South, up into Canada by way of Michigan...
...other states have Harvard alumni in the following numbers: Alabama, 146; Arizona, 58; Arkansas, 104; California, 1,929; Colorado, 273; Delaware, 88; District of Columbia, 876; Florida, 263; Georgia, 247; Idaho, 62; Illinois, 1,690; Indiana, 459; Iowa, 387; Kansas, 176; Kentucky, 201; Louisiana, 123; Marvland, 422; Michigan, 570; Minnesota, 539; Mississippi, 48; Missouri, 689; Montana, 85; Nebraska, 170; Nevada, 22; New Jersey, 1,049; New Mexico, 35; New York, 7,482; North Carolina, 255; North Dakota, 45; Ohio, 1,652; Oklahoma, 131; Oregon, 237; Pennsylvania, 1,908; Phillipino Islands, 40; South Carolina, 115; South Dakota, 44; Tennessee, 175; Texas...
...election of Rhodes Scholars to enter Oxford in the fall of 1928 will take place on December 10, in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire. New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin...