Word: midwestern
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...beyond this, the wild generalizations which have been bandied about for the past two or three years seem, quite rightly, to be passing out of vogue. For Kirkland is not a Midwestern House, and probably never has been. Statistics show that 17 percent of the House comes from the midwest, compared with 16 percent for the undergraduate body as a whole. Nor is Kirkland in any way the intellectual inferior of the other Houses. Quite to the contrary, 43 percent of the House made Dean's List last year, compared with about 35 percent for the rest of the College...
...paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...
...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...