Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is as simple as life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others...
...front cover} In 1925 three young men, energetic and determined, were elected Presidents of three of the huger Midwestern universities. The educational world looked to them for dynamic administrations, shrewd innovations. Their average...
...member of the Midwestern association. There are three college comic associations: the Western, including colleges west of a line drawn south through Denver; the Eastern, including colleges east of a line drawn south through Pittsburgh; the Midwestern lying between...
...infrequent drinkers.† Editors of University of Virginia magazines, outraged, pledged their efforts to have the Eastern College Comics Association also repudiate College Humor. The sole other college comic association, the Western, voted to cancel all contracts with it eight months before the recent action of the Midwestern...
...Secretary of Agriculture, no man seemed more logical or deserving than James W. Good, the midwestern Hoover-izer who stopped and more than stopped the "farm revolt." Always cheerful but never overconfident, Mr. Good said, on the day before election, that estimating votes in advance was like driving a wagonload of bullfrogs to a pond-you couldn't tell from the noise how many had jumped...