Word: midwestern
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...Atterbury, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. About 250 civilians piled off the Sunday-night train from Detroit. They were no ordinary recruits, some were beyond military age, some had fought in World War I; all were members of C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. They had come from Midwestern armament plants to Atterbury's wooded hills to train a few days with U.S. soldiers...
Here is one you may have missed. Rosiland Russell and Janet Blair (My Sister Eileen) in a daffy sort of comedy about two wet-behind-the-ears midwestern girls who hit the Big Town--and in turn...
...this heady Midwestern talk was heard uneasily by Atlantic and Pacific Coast ports. Detroit and Chicago looked north to Europe and Asia, St. Louis looked south to Latin America, New York and San Francisco looked gloomily at their great sea harbors, which might become cheap freight bases when much of the rich, glamorous passenger traffic goes...
Modern man's strength is greater than his knowledge or his will, thought this aging Midwestern professor. "The vast economic material body of the world lacks a mind to match it, and is not animated by a commensurate moral spirit. This backwardness is the tragic inadequacy of our time. It is the basic problem which the agencies of aspiration and intelligence have to solve...
Baseball Banned. Today Helen Traubel averages more than 60 concerts a year on tours throughout the U.S. Her homely Midwestern habits have changed but little. Indestructibly good-natured, she has never been known to have a fit of temperament. Baseball has been forbidden her, because she always yells herself hoarse. But she goes to rip-roaring Western movies and listens to the Lone Ranger on the radio. Her husband is a onetime stockbroker, now her personal manager...