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Word: local (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative of the R.F.D. Out he jumped, surveyed the situation, and then attacked a road-side sapling with an axe he carried in his car. With the aid of this and a few flat stones to serve for what he called a "bait" but what the Vagabond's physics professors would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...communities, but to develop methods, ideals, and procedures and to present them, to be taken on their merits. . . . The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from education can, it seems to me, be accomplished without disturbing the initiative and responsibility of local and state units of government. . . . A Department of Education similar to the other departments of the government is not required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Education Department | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...actually killed, but the local Polish consul was summoned post-haste to Warsaw, and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski announced that he was drafting a stiff protest to the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clenched Noses | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard tennis team will stack up against the M. I. T. racquet wielders at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity Courts. The visitors, after losing to Amherst and Wesleyan, conquered Tufts and B. U., but the local aggregation should have no trouble in extending to nine its string of successive victories. Coach Cowles has not yet announced his doubles combinations, although Ogden Phipps '31 and W. H. Breese '31 will undoubtedly play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM FACES TECHNOLOGY TODAY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

Both the Freshman and University Seconds tennis teams will swing into action this afternoon, the former journeying to Southboro for a match with St. Mark's School, the latter going to Andover to encounter the local Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAMS JOURNEY TO TWO MATCHES TODAY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

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