Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where he is certain to renew his efforts." In other words, the public is made to believe that it was only a successful local attack which entirely failed in its broader strategic aim of forcing the Germans to transfer men and guns from another portion of the front. The stand taken by the press at the time of the Marne to the effect that a real defeat had been suffered and that it should be retrieved...
Concerts have already been given by the Musical Clubs at Framingham for the benefit of the local Red Cross, at Fort Standish in Boston Harbor and at the Colonial Club on Quincy street. The Musical Clubs also played at the Red Triangle Bazaar at the Copley Plaza in Boston last week, and the Glee Club sang at the Boston City Club. A concert for the benefit of the soldiers at Camp Devens, Ayer, has been arranged for Friday, November...
...city of Boston, proper, had already passed its maximum of $1,000,000, on unofficial reports, at noon. When the figure of $1,539,785 was made out, 41 cities and towns of the district remained still to be heard from, although many of the local committees in the district had sent in approximately accurate reports by telephone. The largest collection reported by any committee outside of Boston was $89,331, from Brookline...
...would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story...
...course. Furthermore, unlike other offensives, this is prominent for the ground gained. Communications with Zeebrugee and Ostend are seriously threatened. The fact that these submarine bases are endangered means that the British are gaining something more than mere proof of their superiority. All terrain captured heretofore has had comparatively local importance, but this new steady drive may surprise the most pessimistic of us as well as the Germans. Further progress on the same line is a check on the submarine campaign and a step toward victory...