Word: middletowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut college got a new president last week. When they heard the news, the students of small, liberal Wesleyan, in Middletown, took 39-year-old Victor Lloyd Butterfield on their shoulders and carried him up College Hill. He succeeds able, popular James L. McConaughy, who resigned last April to continue as president of United China Relief...
Isolationism is far from a dead issue despite Governor Bricker's obscurations. As Drew Middletown points out in last Sunday's Times, most of our fighting forces seem to be relatively unconcerned about the kind of post-war international policy our nation adopts, rather inclining towards a sort of 1938 isolationists normalcy. But such a course would be the shortest road to national suicide. Isolationism was a practicability, however immoral, before the airplane came, before international trade became so critically important, before the disease of fascism. Today isolationism is no longer even a practicable possibility. The issue is very simple...
...Bloomington, the university seat, is about 92 miles from Muncie, scene of Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd's sociological study which, in 1929, made that Indiana town a symbol of U.S. life. Notable Indiana alumni: Wendell Willkie, '13, Paul V. McNutt...
...Famed among sociologists as the original of "Middletown," scene of the Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd milestone study of a typical U.S. town...
...Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...