Word: mid-western
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...best of all the worry-wrinkles on the foreheads of our politicians would subside when they found a new way to spend some thousands of dollars. Lest some be inclined to scoff at this proposal, the new historic example of the use of P. W. A. funds in a mid-western city is cited. With much labor and expense a marsh was drained. Immediately the suburbanites cried out that the scenery was spoiled, so the work was carefully and completely undone...
This will make an even dozen of the Freshmen Fellows, instituted last year by President Conant as an experiment, since the first six mid-western states will again send ten representatives...
...other mid-western college, Illinois, will enter Charlie Flachmann, Conference 50-yard and 100-yard champion, who set a new record of 23.4 sec. in a trial heat in the former event at Illinois last week and also lowered the Conference 100-yard swim record to 52.9 sec. Illinois will also enter W. C. Overman, J. D. Hickey, and Harry Hansen...
...Today, beneath these immemorial column, we are met together in solemn conclave, for a purpose, whether Republican or Democrat, Capitalist or Agriculturalist, Eliotite or Dunsterian, Northern or Amateur, History and Lit., or Physics, Black man or White man, Eastern or Western, or even mid-western, we are united in a cause...
...arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa...