Word: local
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington on the last day of October 1948, burly William Marshall Boyle Jr., one of Kansas City's smartest local politicians, pushed aside a pile of statistics and predicted flatly that Harry Truman would carry 29 states. He was wrong on only one state: Maryland went for Tom Dewey (by 8,293 votes...
Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...
Professor Fairbank maintained that although foreign policy should be worldwide, its application must be varied to meet local circumstances. In China, he said our policy must be to support Chinese nationalism...
...president of one Square department store explained the air of uncertainty which was characteristic of all the local retailers. "Two and two makes four," he said, "but nobody seems to know what two and two are these days. There are just too many factors such as taxes, wages, and cost of materials to consider...
...board, your efforts will got a two-way boost. National, local, and College affairs are in its domain, and here also are the men who can tell pomposity from pizzazz at distances up to a mile...