Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecture on Plato in Philosophy 102. Demos' friendly lectures are just the thing for a cold morning. Others who are seeking a course to audit at this awful hour can hardly do better than Professor Merk's Westward Movement which at last account had reached the banks of the Mississippi. This is a full course, hence unenterable now, but Merk's lectures are considered a complete education in themselves (Harvard...
Harry Truman had the weight of facts and logic on his side. Politicians had outdone themselves carving out weirdly shaped districts designed to increase their power at the expense of their opponents. Illinois had "saddlebag" and "beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long; and Massachusetts still has a scrawny, lizard-shaped district, resembling the original gerrymander, laid out in 1812 to preserve the political power of Governor Elbridge Gerry. In Ohio's 22nd District, Representative Frances P. Bolton served 698,650 constituents, but in the 10th District, Representative Thomas A. Jenkins spoke...
Earnest John G. Gill looked like just the man to take care of the Unitarian Church in the quiet, well-kept town of Alton, 111. (pop. 32,000), on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. At Harvard, John Gill had written his Ph.D. thesis on Elijah Parish Lovejoy, the fiery Abolitionist minister and editor who was beaten to death by an Alton...
Last week Harold Stoke, at the end of a failing mission, announced that he was fed up, would resign as of Feb. 1. With brisk efficiency, the board of supervisors picked a new president: Mississippi-born Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, 61, able wartime commander of the VIII Army Corps in Europe, since 1939 (with time out for war service) L.S.U's comptroller. Harold Stoke's new mission: to take "some time out for battle fatigue," then look for another...
...deserves a mild cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...