Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...productions in the West. Harvard Clubs in Detroit and the other Western cities are cooperating with the Club in its plan for an extended trip during the spring vacation. In each of the cities to be visited University graduates will take charge of advance arrangements while the local Harvard Clubs will act as hosts to the cast of "1776" during its one night stand in each city...
...existing status quo in China with especial reference to British interests. Said he: "The Government of Canton is for the time being under influences which are so blindly anti-British that the Cantonese are not open to a reasonable settlement" (of the anti-British commercial boycott* declared by the local Chinese Bolshevist Government at Canton [TIME, June 29] in defiance of the impotent "Government of China" at Peking...
This history began with the foundation of Pomona College in 1888. A local population with New England antecedents made it possible for Pomona in the midst of the booming, expanding West, with the tenth largest city in the U. S. (today) close at hand, to adopt and maintain the characteristics of a "small college," like Amherst and Williams, Knox and Antioch. Intimacy, hospitality and the individuality of teacher and taught are prime among these characteristics When popularity and population pressure increased, Pomona firmly fixed 700 as its maximum enrollment figure. Rigid selection of entrants was enforced...
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French, invented the stethoscope; discovered auscultation; was a specialist on local diagnosis...
...they tried to stimulate foreign trade through the port by holding the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition. That was a financial loss, which the Federal Government made good by appropriating $160,000. The coming convention is far less pretentious yet probably more momentous to the local commerce, for the National Foreign Trade Council groups some of the shrewdest exporters in the world...