Word: topeka
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...Topeka, Kans...
...movement. Still, this remarkable, concrete achievement rarely inspires pride or awe. A high-speed trip down an Interstate, its fringes bare of shops and homes, is seldom rich with incident. Life begins at the exit ramp. Rosemarie Clark knows; she maps travel routes for members of the A.A.A. in Topeka, Kans. Says Clark: "We get a lot of people who come in and say, 'No Interstates.' They want to see America...
However, Paul Frantz, a meteorologist for the national Weather Service in Topeka, said temperatures from mid-September to November should be below normal Hogan said he had already received a complaint that one building. Halworth Hall, was not warm enough...
...publishing his first hits in the 1920s. During the '30s and '40s he wrote the scores for a string of movie musicals, winning Academy Awards for Lullaby of Broadway (from Gold Diggers of 1935); You'II Never Know (Hello Frisco, Hello, 1943); and On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (from The Harvey Girls, 1946). A quiet, amiable man whose talent brought him fortune but not fame, he once said: "I lack charisma. Not even my best friends have heard...
Stratton stumbled upon this gold mine of frontier history--a unique and impressive collection--five years ago in her grandmother's attic. Visiting her ancestor's Topeka. Kansas, home during a semester break from Harvard. Stratton uncovered the manuscripts while poking in a musty filing cabinet lodged under the eaves. Its contents revealed reams of personal testimonies from 800 Kansas women: women in combat with rattlers, prairie blazes and cayotes: women in solitary labor in the cornfields and in the home giving birth with only the cows as witnesses: and, by the 1870s, women embroiled in local politics, temperance...