Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girls drew more gallery whistles, the decorum-conscious judges chose decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half for newsreels, coolly ignoring...
Waves. The widening use of high-intensity sound waves (some high-sounding, some inaudible) was suggested by the University of Minnesota's Professor Karl Sollner. These waves, which can disperse or collect gaseous, liquid or solid particles, are now used to clear the air of fog and smoke, kill or disrupt germs, impregnate aluminum with microscopic lead particles, create fine-grained photographic emulsions...
...Michigan had over a dozen former Wisconsin lettermen on its squad and a dream backfield of potential all-Americas: Wisconsin's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch and Jack Wink, Minnesota's star fullback Bill Daley, Michigan's own Paul White...
...reasonably sure thing was that college football this fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full...
Among well-known citizens who want an international police force after the war are Vice President Henry Wallace, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Ambassador John Winant, Republican hopeful Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Philip Murray of the C.I.O., Matthew Woll of the A.F. of L., and Politico-Pundits Dorothy Thompson, Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Max Eastman. The president of the British Section of the New Commonwealth Society, for more than a decade the most vocal and powerful British group backing an international police force, is none other than Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...