Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleepers from their afternoon baths is still going strong, the water works reported last night. Crews have been working on the break since its discovery but are having a hard time plugging it up. Flooded cellars and furious pumping operations have given that section of Cambridge a bit of Mississippi River charm...
Bradford, who was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, is currently dividing his energies between University Hall and the Harvard Union, where he is Graduate Secretary. In addition he holds a teaching fellowship in Economics, for which he prepared with undergraduate work at Syracuse University, and with graduate study there and at Harvard...
Orchids to TIME for your splendid article on Kansas Prohibition [TIME, Sept. 9]. . . . Kansas dry laws are as big a farce as Mississippi's Bilbo. In Wichita one can purchase a fifth of Schenley's, Seagram's, or even Old Granddad for only...
...first attempt was a lion hunt on a nearby island in the Mississippi. He knew that there were lions on the island, because he had bought two from a circus and turned them loose there. A fearless Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their...
Through it all, the larger cities in the state remain Democratic. The metropolitan machines, like Curley's in Boston, return a vote as solid as Mississippi's, with methods considerably more subtle. Some urban Congressional districts haven't gone Republican since the turn of the century; others couldn't go Democratic without either electoral revolution or mass migration...