Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
Turning to white voting officials for an explanation, the commission, chaired by Michigan State University President John A. Hannah, got meager cooperation. Of 14 officials subpoenaed for the hearing, six refused to appear. Others, like Macon County Probate Judge William Varner, 70, came, but were studiously circumloquacious. Varner did not know how many voters were on Macon County's rolls, had never seen a registration form. But he was certain there was no discrimination; white and Negro applicants filled out the same form. Snapped former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, Negro member of the commission: "How would...
...London. Michigan State University's Physicist Thomas H. Osgood...
...MICHIGAN. Says Assistant Dean Robert G. Lovell: the University of Michigan does not particularly care what a student's major is, will admit social science and humanities majors as readily as premed majors if they meet science requirements...
...Parseghian, Miami '49, transformed Northwestern, the 1957 door mat of the Big Ten, into a spirited team that upset Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State, threw scares into Iowa and Wisconsin...