- a variation of Midwestern.
Middle Western
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2018
How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
Jerry Ford went genially off to China like a good Middle Western businessman with part of his family in tow and his bookkeeper along to finish a little budget work in the hotel at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in their Middle Western days, both men did radio broadcasts of away-from-home baseball games, when a minimal telegraphed strike-or-ball message had to be fleshed out into an imaginative description of a game unseen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another in a Middle Western state wants all sporting news in its state, particularly that concerning colleges and high schools.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
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