Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
John and Margaret Perkins of the University of Michigan decided that the nation knew far too little about the presidents its colleges & universities were getting. They decided to make a survey of their own. Last week, in School and Society, they told what they had found out about the heads of 84 state and land-grant colleges...
...what he meant, Doyle pointed to a glaring example of life-adjustment claims in a recent article in This Week magazine. The article was "full of the usual cliches such as 'learning as much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...
...striking thing about Feikema's hero Thurs Wraldson, a poor boy from an orphan farm, was his great size. As he began his studies at Christian College and Seminary in Michigan, "all human life, all its habits, its mores, was against him. The doors and the bathrooms and the beds and the clothes." The petite coed of his choice turned him down; his grip was a menace to life & limb, and after one embrace of his "massive passion," she had to call the doctor...
...thank the Senator for his invaluable contribution," snapped Lucas. But if it got down to cases, he wanted to point out that the Republicans had used up 57% of the debating time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...