Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, typhoid is a "dead" disease. Nobody is in much danger of catching it, and doctors rarely look for it. But occasionally the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhosa), as if to keep its charter in the society of menaces, strikes back. This year a baffling outbreak has spread across three Midwestern states. It hit Minnesota most severely in January, Iowa in April. Wisconsin has had a gradual dose of it since the first of the year. To date there have been 121 cases (one death, in Iowa). The victims were from both urban and rural areas, ranged in age from...
Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...
...chun, assistant professor of chemical engineering at a Midwestern state university, went to Red China last month; the U.S. did not stop him, because all Chinese refugees are free to leave. Another Chinese student recently sent his wife to London, joined her there and traveled home by way of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, scores of other Chinese are racked by doubt...
...MERGER between Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway has been recommended by ICC examiner. Under deal calling for stock swap, L. & N. (which already owns 75% of smaller road) will take over N.C. & St. L., combine operations along 5,777 miles of track through 13 Southern and Midwestern states. Though labor unions and Nashville civic groups oppose merger, two roads say it will save $3,000,000 annually in operating costs...
Most of the first words were wieldy enough, at least to Melody: conductor, scientist, julep. Almost as fast as Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman rolled them off his 670-word list, they were shot back, letter-perfect, in Southern drawls, crisp New England accents or Midwestern twangs. Then one boy spelled ardent with an a, and a 14-year-old girl had the same trouble with lavender, ending with ar. Another victim spelled conscientious with a c instead of t. Clyde W. Dawson, 13, of New Mexico, tacked an se to the end of incandescence, and in a real gone voice...