Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey said he knew of no other midwestern college figures who have yet been contacted by the Corporation. However, it has recently been rumored that the Corporation, unable to find a suitable choice in this area, is searching the ranks of mid-Western colleges for presidents or deans who have graduated from the College...
...weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...Herb." After the nomination was won, Brownell helped lay out the general campaign plans, then packed his bags and headed for his Manhattan law office. He could have been campaign manager, but he knew that the big black "D" on his old sweaters would antagonize the Midwestern Taftites, even though he was no longer Dewey...
...seems to remember every playmate, neighbor and town character of the first 20 years of his life. And he tells about them with an artless lack of point and discrimination that flirts perilously with final boredom. A historian 100 years from now may easily conclude: this is how a Midwestern U.S. town must have looked in the 1880s. But the impression would be only tintype deep, for Author Sandburg has seemingly cared little about looking past the frock coats and working clothes for attitudes and feelings. Moving about from home to school to barbershop, he has recalled a pace...
...This Made Me Scared." The boys were unprepared for another Midwestern phenomenon: winter. At the first cold snap, McPherson College telephoned around town to line up some warm clothes...