Word: midwestern
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...throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired to a central studio with a practically unlimited choice of records, and subscribers all over town. Last week one of the largest companies...
...acceptance by the individual schools of their responsibility to help each student discover his special talents and help him make the most of them. As examples of schools where such an aim has already been established he cited vocational schools in New York and elsewhere, the Civilian Conservation Corps, Midwestern schools which encourage student investigations into community affairs, and others which make sure that a student leaving the school is prepared for a definite job, and which help...
...hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...
Born 43 years ago in the little town of Mantorville, Minn., grey-thatched Arnold Blanch started his career by scrawling on the walls of Midwestern privies. His first ideas of painting he got from a maiden aunt who painted flowers on china. When he was about 16 his family moved to Minneapolis, where, inspired by the sight of students drawing Greek casts in the public library, he decided to study art. After four years of cast-copying and life classes, he got a scholarship at Manhattan's Art Students' League, where he studied under oldtime U. S. Realist...
...Society "supplied $86 worth of Scriptures." In 1939, working with the still older and bigger American Bible Society, it sowed some 1,600,000 Bibles through eight midwestern States. Since Dr. McLaughlin took charge of it in 1927, the Society's sales have quadrupled. As a missionary in the Philippines, he helped translate the Bible into Tagalog. As a Bible distributor and cruise lecturer, he has been round the world six times. Two years ago he fell and broke his back. During the 13 months he was in a cast, he made 173 addresses. Dr. McLaughlin promotes the Bible...