Word: midwesternisms
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...year-old Chicago Tribune Press Service, which also draws on Reuters and the New York Daily News, sends out a heavy dose of Midwestern stories to 38 clients, all in the U.S. Running mostly background stories, the service often puts Trib reporters to work exclusively on wire stories; Trib Washington Bureau Chief Walter Trohan contributes as many as two or three columns a week. The Trib discourages editorial comment in stories. "We have clients in the North and South," says Editor-Manager Tom Burns, "and we have to please them...
...raised campus not only accentuates the view of a great city: it also impressively dramatizes the immense stretch of the Midwestern prairies by capitalizing on Frank Lloyd Wright's perception that the best architectural way to capture their spirit would be in strong horizontals. The space beneath the granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There...
...might have been a bit "down" for Harvard after a pair of games against rugged midwestern opposition. But they still had the horses...
...demands on draft boards have differed widely from one part of the country to another, and the boards have tightened deferments without trying to establish either precedents or principles. Boards in southern states, for example, have already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students, while in other regions -- the Midwestern and Middle Atlantic states -- there is no indication that boards will take undergraduates. In affluent districts which send large numbers of their young men to college (and in farm districts where many registrants are draft-exempt agricultural employees) boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find eligible non-students. Some...
...tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls him "the toughest man I have ever known." Moreover, General Johnson expects the other 1,016,920 soldiers in his Army to be equally tough. "What an individual can do depends on his state of mind," he says in a gravelly Midwestern accent. "You can do whatever you will yourself...