Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
...Midwestern gridirons trembled as strong teams galloped to & fro. Northwestern's to & fro went farther than Ohio State's; score 19-13. Wisconsin could go neither to nor fro against Michigan, losing 14-0. Minnesota and Indiana matched to for to and fro for fro, tying 14-14. True also for Iowa State and Illinois; 12-12. Against Purdue a toe helped Chicago to turn a tie into a trimming...
...woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor of the wet presidential candidate, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith. In Indiana. Not in the least helpful to Dr. McBride were sounds issuing last week from Indiana. With the trial for alleged corruption of the mayor of Indianapolis and Governor Ed Jackson (TIME...
Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
...your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years...