Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California has ruled that all pro boxers must fight with 8-oz. gloves instead of the usual six-ouncers. Michigan has reduced the three-minute round to two minutes...
Born three decades ago in Boston, Ciardi spent his undergraduate years in Bates and Tufts, and then moved out to Michigan for his M. A. in English. There, in 1939, "I suddenly found myself very rich" when "Homeward to America," a book of verse, won the annual Hopwood prize and was accepted for publication...
...From Michigan, the young poet traveled to a teaching job at Kansas City University. The call to Khaki followed almost immediately, and Ciardi spent four years in the Air Force. His second book of poems, "Other Skies," a personal record of the war years, was published last fall...
...headlong drive did not mean that he had the nomination in his pocket. But professional politicians who had said "He's a good man but he can't be nominated," hurried to take a second look. They also looked hard and long in the direction of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, whom Stassen never failed to praise and who might be the ultimate beneficiary of the Stassen strength...
Moscow's foreign press corps thought Cecilia Nelson Kohonen a fairly harmless person. A small (5 ft. 2 in.), pleasant-faced blonde of 33, she was a native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...