Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unlikely event that government officials can persuade farmers to let land lie idle, there is no assurance that the farmers won't simply grow more on their remaining acres. The fertility of midwestern soil and the remarkable improvements in fertilizers mean that, with intensified cultivation, farm production could rise to compensate for what is deferred into the soil bank. When the same plan was tried in the New Deal days, it proved useless in combatting surpluses...
...other way stops on the Ivy circuit with more than academic interest. An independent schedule for Chicago seems to preclude any attempts of the Maroon to regain its seat in the Big Ten. Chicago could schedule teams like Washington University of St. Louis, but the field of big-name midwestern schools playing amateur football is limited. It is not unlikely that Chicago will seek a few billings on the select fall engagement calendars of the Ivy League...
Although Dartmouth had lost seven in a row, they are far from a pushover. Included in this string of defeats are losses to several strong western and midwestern teams, including California, U.S.C., U.C.L.A., and Bradley...
...cheapest in the long run. This is suggested by official Kansas figures, just released, on a six-year drive to treat all cases of severe mental illness as promptly and intensively as possible. Doctors found a telling comparison between Kansas' experience and that of seven other Midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin) that have been slower in getting their intensive-treatment campaigns rolling...
Born in Calcutta of a family that had served in India since 1805, he was as excited about India as though he had gone there from a Midwestern farm. He was afire with the need to make good with his Gurkha troops, tribesmen from Nepal whose qualities as men and soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having...