Word: midwesternisms
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Returning to the U.S., he hit the lecture trail-a tall, gentle man with an open Midwestern face and the anxious, intent eyes of an Elijah. In one year he spent more than one-third of his nights in sleeping cars. He left the Times. He and his wife sent their children to college and lived on what he made from his lectures and an occasional article. He organized Federal Union, Inc. as the holding company of his crusade. After France fell, he scraped together $2,385 in cash and promises and bought a full-page ad in the Times...
...similar storage library is at present being designed to be constructed on the University of Chicago campus. When ton Midwestern universities got together to draw its basic plans, the Carnegie Foundation, convinced by the New England Deposit Library's success, was among the agencies giving financial support...
...similar storage library is at present being designed to be constructed on the University of Chicago campus. When ten Midwestern universities got together to draw its basic plans, the Carnegic Foundation, convinced by the Now England Deposit Library's success, was among the agencies giving financial support...
...January Midwestern furniture displays had the new look. In mahogany-bound Grand Rapids, Mich., strongest citadel of period-piecing in the U.S., last week's displays by old-line manufacturers showed that over half of them had added handsome, well-designed modern to their quality period products. It was the same kind of story at Chicago's winter furniture exhibitions, showcases of a large part of the rest of the U.S. furniture industry...
...games in Brooklyn, St. John's moved across the river to Madison Square Garden and plastered Louisiana State, 80-49. Big (6 ft. 6 in.) Sophomore Center Zeke Zawoluk picked basketballs off the backboards and Gerry Calabrese peppered the basket with deadly accuracy from the "outside." Unlike most Midwestern teams, which specialize in the fast break, St. John's has a collection of set-shot artists who do not weave in unless they feel frisky...