Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the guarded peiorism that farmers live by, the Southwest was inclined to scoff. True, there was a blow last fortnight that sent yellow dust billowing from Kansas to Texas. But it was no black blizzard of '36. True, the land was parched from the worst drought in ten years. It was too loose, drifting now and ready to fly in the shrill March winds...
...Army's records, it was listed as the Loire Detention Training Center at Le Mans, but in the memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether they had merely observed them from the outside, the men agreed that it had been tough-like Lichfield, England (TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 14). There was no question that the Army's policy had been to make detention so uncomfortable that the prisoners would prefer combat duty; the question...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is the massive Widener Library, largest university library in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in World War I. In the southwest stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of the Superintendent of caretakers and of University bill collectors...
...Harvey Girls (MGM) is a Technicolored musical celebrating the coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
Young, prosperous ($27 million endowment) Rice Institute at Houston has perhaps the top engineering school in the Southwest, and a reputation for choosiness. Rice has never hired a campus pressagent. For years it cheerfully flunked out its most promising football material in the Christmas exams. When alumni howled, Rice reluctantly established a slightly less exacting department of physical education with a B.S. for thick-skulled athletes, but it never liked the idea. Rice has had only one president in its 34 years, derby-hatted, aloof Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett. Four years ago, at 70, Dr. Lovett said he wanted...