Word: mid-west
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mid-East tournament, Kentucky is a slight favorite. Houston and U.C.L.A., the top two teams in the country, are heavily favored to win the Mid-West and Western regional and repeat their January clash in the National semi-finals...
...will find it difficult to benefit from Wallace's strength outside the South. Polls show that his support is insignificant in the East and is only slightly important in the Middle and Far West. Since hostility to the Administration is widespread among farmers, Republicans would do well in the Mid-west even if Wallace did not siphon off Democratic votes...
...issue of lengthening Christmas recess recurred every year between 1913 and 1915. Students were allowed December 23 to January 3. They did not argue for extension because they wanted more leisure time; they wanted to be able to get home and back. As more students came from the mid-west and south, they needed extra travelling time. Lowell extended the Christmas recess...
...single individual, then. It may have been the Mid-West, or the New Deal, or something else altogether. Whatever it was, it had pushed Harvard to the beginning of an identity crisis. Some of the subtle pressures Harvard had always exerted were clearly being challenged from within...
...largest number, 107, come from the middle Atlantic states -- New York, New Jersey, and Penn. Ninety-four are from New England, 56 from the South; 44 from the mid-west; and 40 from the far west...