Word: midwestern
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...Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers-the grass was growing again...
...Adolph G. Studer's time, Detroit has swelled from a dozing Midwestern town of less than 200,000 to the fourth city in the U.S., a brawling industrial center of nearly 2,000,000. The Young Men's Christian Association has grown with it. The chief reason: aged (79), devout Dr. Studer, the world's oldest active Y secretary, and one of the shrewdest Christian gentlemen who ever wore the triangle. Says...
Died. John Steuart Curry, 48, lusty realistic painter of harvests, storms, Big Top performers and legendary heroes, whose most praised picture, the John Brown mural in Topeka, Kans., he never signed; best of the famed Midwestern triumvirate which included Artists Thomas Benton and the late Grant Wood; of a heart attack; in Madison...
...York masses are reached by the Hearst papers . . . and by the News, the phenomenally successful tabloid, all of which reflect the Midwestern and Western origin of their publishers...
...Missouri, as in many other Midwestern and Western states, voters are not bound by party affiliation in primary elections...