Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERTH, Australia--A strained stomach muscle forced Alex Olmedo to the sidelines Thursday, leaving Barry MacKay of Dayton, Ohio, and Earl Buchholz of St. Louis to carry on America's hopes for a singles title in the West Australian Tennis Championships...
Olmedo, biggest draw in the tournament, lost one set in beating Alick Bridges, West Australia's best player. Earlier, Barry MacKay of Dayton, Ohio, and Earl Buchholz of St. Louis, had defeated their opponents in second round matches. MacKay dropped the opening set to Doug Napier of Australia but bounced back...
...college town of Oberlin, Ohio (1950 pop. 7,062), neighbors knew Alice Cowles Little as a dear old maiden lady with a sharp memory and a penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections-sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral-cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years...
...average 40 years of age, they are moving front and center to key posts of their companies, communities, professions. Two months ago Ohio Judge Potter Stewart, 43, a lieutenant aboard a Navy tanker in the North African invasion, became the World War II vets' third U.S. Supreme Court Justice, after Brennan and Harlan. (On the bench they sit with five veterans of World War I: eight of the nine Justices have seen wartime military service...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...