Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that they will add the sums of their bond purchases to the total collection of the University. Moreover, in order to offset the objections of many men who want their subscriptions to count at home, these buyers may subscribe through the University Committee, have their sums credited to their local banks and, at the same time, have the amount of their subscriptions used to increase the University's total collection, without entering the sale toward the benefit of Cambridge...
...best speech of the evening was made by Taylor of Princeton, but the local team was unable to destroy the Yale defence. On the affirmative side, the ablest speakers were Irons and Mag, who succeeded in turning the decision in their favor...
There are two vital objections to the relentless application of the principle of nationalism in Europe. The first is that the intermingling of peoples in southern and eastern Europe is such as to preclude any division into national communities. The second is that these local states once established will not be governed by their peaceful and illiterate peasantry, but by scheming leaders and princes who are more likely to plunge Europe again into war than to keep it at peace. The interspersion of the racial elements in Russia, Austria and the Balkans makes their separation impossible. Bulgars and Serbs, Magyars...
...began his public career by entrance into local politics, while two years later he entered the National field as a member of the House of Representatives. He became Speaker of the House in 1894 and was re-elected the two succeeding terms...
...least of our gains in entering the great war is found in the establishment of closer relations with Canada. By appointing the former premier of Nova Scotia resident agent at Washington, the Dominion Government does away with the cumbrous system of conducting purely local or business negotiations through the British Foreign Office at London, and secures better representation of her local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united...