Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing, two-fisted debater, McCormack once spoke on 200 different subjects in a single year, had a memorable moment when he demolished Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman in the House's own florid parliamentary language: "I'm one of the few men in the House who still has a minimum high regard for the Gentleman from Michigan...
...pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped a 515-ft.-long grain boat from its moorings in the Buffalo River and slammed it into the steel-girdered Michigan Avenue Bridge. The bridge shivered and collapsed...
Spelling errors crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...
This was the word last week at a University of Michigan symposium with which the National Foundation launched its 1959 March of Dimes. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk was more frank than ever before in conceding the ineffectiveness of an unspecified proportion of the commercial vaccine released, and contrasting it with the small batches made in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Dr. Salk has always stoutly insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began...
...patterned that it often stalled against an unexpected defense. After warming up with a 5-5 tie with the Nationals in New York, the Russians went on to beat them 8-3 in Minneapolis, 7-1 in Hibbing, Minn. Last week the Russians outclassed an all-star team of Michigan and Michigan State players, trounced Colorado College before being held to a surprising 4-4 tie by the University of Denver. Said Coach Anatoli Tarasov, beaming amiably: "It's the sportsmanship that counts...