11.   He was raised in a cozy middle-class home with two parents, both professors, in a Midwestern town.

12.   In the book, the small Midwestern town is called Porter.

13.   In small Midwestern towns like this one, they take their county fairs seriously.

14.   It was winter in the small Midwestern town, Cather wrote, and the Platte River was frozen.

15.   Jason Biggs is Paul, a scholarship student fresh from a small Midwestern town who arrives in New York City with full-blown naivete.

16.   Most American plants for Japanese cars as well as several new factories for American makes are in nearly all-white Midwestern towns.

17.   My mother, who serves on the board of a tiny bank in the small Midwestern town where I grew up, told me to bring my money home.

18.   Party Cove, like the rest of the lake, was as friendly as any Midwestern small town.

19.   So these animals spoke to me of jungles, deserts, mountains, far beyond the farmyards and cultivated cornfields that surrounded my Midwestern town.

20.   There is no question that the average New England selectman or some Midwestern town official is closer to the neighbors than most Washington bureaucrats.