Word: midwesternisms
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...Fitter Families." At midwestern state fairs, competitions are being held with blue ribbons and silver cups as prizes, for families who submit themselves to examination by physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, dentists, oculists, for ratings in family health, history and heredity. Pedigrees are also worked out noncompetitively, "fitter families" being the slogan of the movement, as explained by Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon, University of Kansas, before the Association...
...success of the revolting graduates will only have been justified if it induces the officers of Yale University to return from midwestern Wallingford methods to the classics, and to be justly apprehensive of those who come bearing gifts. Otherwise the reinstatement of Mr. Woolley will be only another instance of the great vice of American colleges; the unique influence exercised over details of administration by well-meaning but irresponsible graduates. John Carter. New York, May 20, 1925. --New York Times...
Investigate, Secretary Jardine did. Last week he was still investigating. It was known that the Departments of Jus tice and Commerce were also sniffing about the Midwestern brokerages. But not one of the investigators had yet run upon any proof of correspondence between the Messrs. Livermore and Howell nor any records of sales in those gentlemen's names executed in other than legitimate "contract" markets. As far as the evidence went, it was mere business acumen that had moved them separately to sell their grain at the same time and keep on selling until it was time...
...newspapers represented in the table of contents, 6 were Far Western sheets, 9 Midwestern, 4 Southern, 6 Manhattan, 2 New England. No Philadelphia paper contributed anything found worthy by the editors...
...University congratulates the Dean that he has decided to go on with his work of legal research, and not to stray into the tempting field of university administration. What he would gain through influencing the future course of one of the strongest midwestern institutions, he might lose through leaving his chosen work. Dean Pound has only just begun his work in jurisprudence; the past is a promise of his future achievement...