Nebraskanadj.n.

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 25 Nov. 3/3 Western Iowa has a deep interest in Nebraskan movements.

1855 N. P. Willis Out-doors at Idlewild 417 Two or three of the percussion-caps..missed fire—possibly from opposite politics, to the Nebraskan party under salute.

1875 E. A. Curley Nebraska xxii. 289 The Mormon fields, irrigated as they are, are much smaller than those of Nebraskan farmers.

1884 N.Y. Weekly Tribune 2 Apr. 10/4 The advantages which the Nebraskan Mennonites secure by co-operative purchasing of their implements, machinery, and supplies of all kinds, are manifestly..great.

1933 E. Blunden & S. Norman We'll shift our Ground 155 Some thesis writer, Nebraskan or Wisconsinese.

1973 S. Dobyns Man of Little Evils (1974) x. 96 The story concerned a Nebraskan couple who had been..robbed.

1997 Time Out N.Y. 31 July 91/1 Nebraskan bands making a mint off funk-metal.

1909 B. Shimek in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 20 408 The tough, impervious, bluish-black fill which has been known as the sub-Aftonian or pre-Kansan drift in Iowa, is here so well developed, reaching an exposed thickness of more than 15 feet,..that it can no longer be regarded as merely a remnant, but should rank with other well developed drift sheets... This leaves it without a name, and in view of this fact, and of the wide distribution of this formation, the name Nebraskan is proposed for it... The name Nebraskan was suggested to the writer by Professor Calvin.

1934 R. A. Daly Changing World of Ice Age i. 29 In the Middle West of North America, five Glacial stages have been proved, and named, from oldest to youngest, the Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian, Iowan, and Wisconsin stages.

1966 Science 11 Nov. 771/3 The Early Pleistocene record in Nebraska is at present interpreted as indicating two stadial advances of the continental glacier during Nebraskan time.

1980 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 1126 -H. 7 The glacial diversion that disrupted the Pliocene drainage and created the Ohio River substantially preceded the Kansan Glaciation and must have occurred during the Nebraskan Glaciation.

2002 P. E. Calkin & G. M. Young in J. Menzies Mod. & Past Glacial Environm. ii. 26/1 The Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian and Wisconsinan glaciations represented the glacial sequence of the interior lowlands between the Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains.

1854 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 4/5 Senator Stuart proposed to drop the provisions of the bill, with reference to the Missouri Compromise...The proposal puzzled the Nebraskans immensely.

1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby 353 To the rear marched the Nebraskans.

1888 D. D. Field Speeches, Arguments & Misc. Papers (1890) III. 369 Nebraskan, Kansan, Arkansan, Minnesotan, are the true designations of the citizens of those flourishing States.

1900 Congress. Rec. 27 Jan. 1241/2 He aided in the nomination of Mr. Bryan for President, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the brilliant Nebraskan.

1948 Time 26 Apr. 13/2 Ohioans seemed as friendly to him as Nebraskans.

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iii. 49 The medic, ‘Jake’ Jacobs..was a pale, thin Nebraskan, recently married.

2000 J. Lowe Damn Right! iii. 19 There are many Nebraskans of notable character, including..Buffalo Bill Cody; novelist Willa Cather;..entertainers Henry Fonda..and Fred Astaire [etc.].

1930 Science 22 Aug. 194/1 The Nebraskan is probably a million years old.

1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. l. 1528 F. Leverett..estimates post Early Wisconsin time as 70,000 years and obtains c. 200,000 years since the Illinoian, more than 500,000 years since the Kansan, and probably one million years since the Nebraskan.

1996 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 80 1497/1 Local foraminiferal faunas are categorized and described from selected stratigraphic sections of the Gulf Coast basin, including the lower Pleistocene (Nebraskan), lower Pliocene,..and the middle Oligocene.