Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League record. Other notable results: Illinois and Ohio State, a 0-0 tie, temporarily derailing the Illinois Rose Bowl train; Michigan State, the nation's No. I team, over Indiana's hopped-up Hoosiers, 30-26; both Sugar Bowl teams-Tennessee over Mississippi, 46-21, and Maryland over North Carolina State...
Between 1940 and 1950, according tc U.S. Census Bureau figures released last week, seven Southern states lost an overall total of 249,360 Negroes, while their white population increased by 2,046,511. Georgia lost 21,440, Alabama 1,621, Mississippi 86,984, Arkansas 55,300, Oklahoma 31,410, Texas 41,279, Kentucky...
...appointed day was bleak and drizzly. Only 2,700 people turned out, and they included few notables. Georgia's truculent Herman Talmadge and Mississippi's Fielding Wright, a lame duck, were the only governors present. Other than Byrd, there were no Senators...
...conventional account with homely details. Volume I is concerned mainly with the way Americans have worked, and it covers everything from slave-tended tobacco growing in the colonial South to New England whaling and Detroit assembly lines. Volume II focuses on manners and styles of life: steamboating on the Mississippi, immigrant ways in the big city slums, the exciting new society diversions of the waltz and polka...
...debating team argue that Women Should Choose Death Before Dishonor. Again, just last year, Princetonians revived their colonial history by bombarding West Point with leaflets inviting the cadets to an Indian Massacre. Princetonians have even devised a method for numbering their graduates in those unknown regions west of the Mississippi; they take a state's population in millions, divide by the distance from Princeton, multiply the results by 36,500, and-that gives them the number of fellow Tigers in the state. This may show that Princetonians are a proud clan -- but today they pay their respects to the college...