Word: mid-american
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...football fans never heard of Miami University of Ohio (enrollment: 6,000). Tucked away in the little (pop. 9,000) town of Oxford, it is far from a national power, remains content to produce a middling-good football team that winds up near the top of the middling-strong Mid-American Conference each year. But on the coaching lines, Miami alumni assume more stature. In 1958 Miami can boast that it has produced the most glittering roster of winning football coaches in the U.S. The record...
...Ohio Bobcats, once defeated in Mid-American Conference play, will arrive in Cambridge by plane this afternoon...
...whether they're well known outside their Mid-American conference or not, whether the Crimson is favored to triumph Saturday or not, Ohio's Bobcats should do more than snarl and bare their fangs...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...
...time just sitting and listening to people talk-drummers, race-track touts, rivermen, politicos, farmers, railroaders, tramps, trulls and small-town merchants. Since Whitman stood ";there in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim," few U. S. writers have been so conscious of the physical body of mid-American earth, its mountainous musculature, its pumping rivers, the chokingly hot or numbingly cold prairies whose distance envelops the lonely villages and their lonely people like night. No poet since Whitman gave such authentic voice to that haunting, dark, mid-continental loneliness...