Word: midwesternisms
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...Democratic tide slapped hard against Republican pilings 18 months ago when Democrats won slender control of Congress while Dwight Eisenhower swept to his re-election victory. It swirled and eddied ominously when traditionally Republican, Midwestern Wisconsin sent Democrat William Proxmire to the Senate ten months ago to fill the late Joe McCarthy's seat, and again last month when more Democrats turned out in the Ohio primaries than at any time in the last 20 years. Last week it surged unmistakably across politically powerful California, the G.O.P.'s last outpost on the West Coast. In the popularity-poll...
...99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
...wishes to "go East" seldom realizes the difficulties of getting into a private Eastern college. He has probably been an all-A student in high school anyway, and has the added advantage of "geographic distribution." Only a handful of students take College Boards in any year, since few Midwestern colleges require them...
Gary's recognition of its educational shortcomings and the improvements made so far are laudable. They do not make Gary high schools into preparatory academies. Neither do they detract from the excellence of the many extracurricular activities, nor do they eliminate the "fun" aspect of Midwestern high school life...
...Associated Harvard Clubs was formed primarily to insure the nomination of a midwestern candidate to the Board of Overseers. Its liberalizing tendency is to be seen in the fact that the procedure of the postal ballot, used at present to insure the right of every alumnus who has been a graduate for more than five years to vote in Overseers elections, was the result of action by the Associated Harvard Clubs...