Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smalltown, U.S.A...
...TIME, nor any other periodical, can overemphasize the admitted provincialism of Smalltown, U.S.A., nor call too much attention to the shortcomings of their newspapers which "come smudgily from flat-bed presses. . . ." But when TIME, with all other periodicals, observes only the typical and never the multitude of exceptions, the burden grows great...
...TIME unaware of the millions of denizens of Smalltown who are reasonably literate-read TIME and even more liberal publications...
...breezy, 37-year-old, best-selling author of Party Line, a story of smalltown small talk, has used crutches since she was eight, when she lost her right leg in a bicycle accident. To Louise Baker life on crutches is not funny, but it can be fun. She argues her case persuasively in a witty autobiography: Out on a Limb (Whittlesey House...
Besides, Ed Thye was a formidable vote-getter in his own right. Friendly, honest, an able administrator and an indefatigable campaigner in smalltown, door-to-door electioneering, he had piled up the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he ran for re-election to the Governor's chair in 1944. Purring with power, the Stassen machine coasted easily...