Word: midwesternisms
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...varsity crew won the Compton Cup Saturday, but narrowly lost the boat race to the midwestern brawn of the University of Wisconsin...
...your goddamned feet off my desk, Abe." (The Colonel enforced his own Trib ban against feet on the desk.) Unlike his grandson, Medill led public opinion in the U.S. Almost singlehanded, he assured Lincoln's nomination for the presidency. Then, with the power of his Trib, he swung Midwestern opinion in support of Lincoln in the election of 1860, forcibly preached the abolition of slavery. (He advised hotheaded Southern editors to "take the ice out of their juleps and put it on their heads...
...debating teams will visit 24 colleges in 11 midwestern and Southern states. In a locally televised debate, one debate team will meet Marquette University. Among the other schools they will meet will be the University of Wisconsin, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, Duke University, and the University of Kentucky...
Anderson entitles his report, "Witch Hunt in The Ivy League." He tells how in August 1952 a friend got him in touch with the father of "Terry McGovern. The father wanted no athletic scholarship at a midwestern institution for his son, but admitted great interest in Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...Good Housekeeping magazine), and Minnesota has already amassed $6,000 this year, all used for scholarships. The losers get wristwatches. To Co-Producer John Moses the biggest surprise of the two-year history of Quiz Bowl is the continuing dominance of Minnesota ("You'd never expect a Midwestern school to keep knocking off these Eastern colleges"). Last season the Gophers won eight straight before being upset by Brown-Pembroke. This year, after tying their first match with Georgetown, and winning by a narrow margin the second time they met, the Minnesotans have won twelve in a row. Only...