Word: mid-western
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...from his better-known studies of Chicago's garish, soot-covered landmarks and blistering, blustering street scenes. But its brilliant colors and on-the-spot realism were laid on with the same bright and accurate brush that had long since brought him into the front ranks of Mid-Western artists...
...nation is worrying about its natural resources at the present time. The forest rangers in Colorado may be able to keep a wave of close-cropping sheep out of the remaining federal lands, but theirs is an isolated fight. The Mississippi is still depositing thousands of acres of fine mid-western farmland into the Gulf of Mexico; Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior have bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute over who should cure the river's problems. Loggers in Northern New York State are still leaving hanging tree-tops as they timber, making a fine dry roadway...
President Conant is among the ten leading personages in the country, the University of Wisconsin's newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, has found in a poll of faculty members of the mid-western school...
Arthur Valpey brought the Michigan system to Harvard football last year, but it's a shame he didn't inspire the Athletic Association with a sensible mid-western approach to the business of awarding sports letters as well. The HAA could certainly use some new ideas in this department. It has been operating on a dried-up and unfair basis that is as out-of-date as the flying wedge...
Athletic Director Bingham cant't afford to wait too wait too long. Spring practice generally starts around March 15 and applicants for the job know it. They have been cramming the H.A.A. mail bag. The place de resistance was a sincerely-penned communique from the wife of a mid-western high school coach. She was convinced her man was the logical choice to lead Harvard out of the football wilderness. "This is between you and I, Mr. Bingham," she said in her letter, "as my husband yet knows nothing about my writing...