Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unimpeachable probity and ruined finances, is endeavoring to construct a canal through a small town in New York. He has secured the option on the land desired from the land owners, who are poor farmers. He is continually blocked in his efforts to get the charter granted by the local coal trust and several other powerful corporations, whose interests would be jeopardized by the building of the canal. Marns, his ward, Faith Stuart and several others who have the interest of the community at heart, are struggling to secure the granting of the charter in spite of powerful opposition...
...expedition reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...program of the performance is certain to be of extraordinary merit, for as a charity movement of a purely local character, the entertainment has enlisted the aid of Mr. Lawrence McCarthy, manager of the Boston Opera House, who has tendered the theatre free and who is planning the details of the performance which he will personally direct. The following distinguished artists and theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas...
...done. We must go back a step. In your columns I have noticed that discussions of student voting generally assume that the student from a distant state has no interest in the local affairs of Cambridge and Massachusetts. Why so? On the slightest consideration it will appear that this is not true. Many of us are here for seven years or more; a great many more for four years, a period as long as millions of citizens spend in one town, because of the varying demands of the labor market and shifting business conditions. Men of Cambridge, we are interested...
...material around which Mr. Henderson writes his "Unseen Genius." The village half-wit who reads voraciously, with his doting mother and the stupid, brutal father, on whom he finally bends the horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...