Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on Poland [Feb. 23] you stated that that country's corn yield reached 449 bu. per acre in 1961. Such an astronomical figure must surely have made many a Midwestern farmer wince in utter astonishment...
After a tough weekend in Minnesota, the Crimson travels to Colorado Springs to meet Colorado College, another Midwestern school that has adopted what Eastern colleges consider to be the right approach to hockey. The teams will clash in the famous Broadmoor Rink, at the foot of Pikes Peak...
Other teams in the field are from Washington University (the host), Valparaiso, DePaw, Wheaton, and Williams Jewell, all Midwestern schools. On its return trip to Cambridge, the quintet will meet Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Wednesday...
...another new book, The Intelligent Parents' Guide to Teen-Agers (228 pp.; Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.; $3.95), Author Thelma C. Purtell, a Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...
...past two years, the Faculty has refused NCAA invitations in protest of alleged abuses of recruiting practices among Midwestern colleges. Each time the Committee has made its ad hoc decision at the end of the season after receiving a definite...