Word: midwesternisms
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...settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...better than 2-to-1 Chicagoans plumped for the third proposition, to restore their city to a normal Midwestern schedule...
...vivid genre painting of a Midwestern barber shop by Paul Sample...
...possible that Eastern publications are still wont to minimize the accomplishments of a Midwestern team even though it might be defending a matter so local and provincial as a national championship...
Wriston likes to point out by way of contrast that Lawrence has a larger investment in athletic equipment per student than any other Midwestern college...