Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus by a gesture intended principally for local effect, Chief Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...
...life, what man's tailor to patronize, and whose brow in truth is the highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled how far up in the woods Hanover is, the sons of Eleazer may be forgiven this...
...Traffic Department handles the operation of this material; the actual work of calls; supervision of telephone operators, which again is sub-divided into local, toll, and long distance...
Last week the Postmaster of Trencsen, a town in the Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such...
...Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...