Word: midwestern
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Henry also noted that several meetings of regional groups, such as the midwestern Big Ten, have produced standard admission programs in the past, but this is the first move in the direction of standardization among eastern schools...
...together what rapid strides the Midwest is making, Iowa's Des Moines Art Center last week was exhibiting a rich cross section of art from Midwest collectors: 89 paintings and statues from 31 Midwest museums, colleges and universities and private collectors. The Des Moines show proves that Midwestern collectors do not stick exclusively to such safe 19th century American classics as George Caleb Bingham, George Inness and Thomas Eakins, and the Midwest's Big Three, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry. They are also willing to bet their money on modern European masters-Braque, Matisse, Henry...
Musically, the opera is a pioneer work since it covers a neglected field--the midwestern musical tradition. The simple, strongly harmonic folk songs in Thompson's score are traceable to English folk music in Anglo-Saxon times...
...boys were part of a radical Christian experiment: the East Harlem Protestant Parish. With 21 other students (twelve boys, nine girls) from Colby, Swarthmore, Colgate, Union Theological Seminary and other Eastern and Midwestern colleges, they had forsaken beach or mountains to spend their summer vacations in one of the country's most densely populated, crime-ridden areas. Their mission: to practice Christianity...
Said Darby, who has visited just about every state in the Union on presidential tours: "I consider myself one of the country's foremost authorities on airports, railroad stations, hotel lobbies and auditoriums. It will be nice to learn what surrounds these things in the Midwestern states...