Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago-30 anyway and perhaps 40-a bill was introduced in Congress providing that our country be known henceforth as "Usona," short for United States of North America [TIME, March 13 et seq.]. Whereupon John Sharp Williams of Mississippi moved as a substitute that instead of "Usona" the name be "Weuns." The bill got no farther...
...struck out through driftwood for the shore, he figured it out. Clear Creek Bayou, a peaceful Mississippi stream in dry weather, was on the rampage, had washed clear away the centre section of a concrete highway bridge. While he stumbled back through the underbrush to the highway, other cars zoomed smoothly up to the bridge-and vanished. Frantically he tried to flag three others. Their drivers ignored the dripping, scarecrow figure and sped on into the void. Each time there followed a single booming splash, sometimes a few hoarse shouts and screams...
...escaping from Southern towns which dislike agitators. Once he avoided being lynched by crawling on his belly for a quarter-mile to escape from a Florida town. He explained: ". . . There was nothing to be gained by staying and I was scared." Against the likes of "Buck" Kester, Arkansas and Mississippi planters protested last February, publicly appealing to Southern churches "not to make their tenants and sharecroppers class-conscious...
...Greatest scarcity of hospitals is in Mississippi (1.4 beds to each thousand inhabitants). Greatest abundance is in the District of Columbia (8.6 beds per thousand). Most States average from two to four beds per thousand inhabitants...
...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...