Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every hand law violation obtrudes its hideous head and blatant voice. A wet press and unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
...with which they smeared their bodies, as did the early Britons. In 1861 Dunedin was the scene of one of the mad scrambles for gold which sent so many adventurers flocking to New Zealand. Now it has grown decorous, sprouted an embryo culture. As the Exposition got under way local citizens announced with pride that they had financed the whole venture except for a grant of ?25,000 from the Dominion Government...
...railway between Aleppo in the North and Dera in the South. The Druses were said to be in control of an area as large as the state of New Jersey between Mount Hermon and Wadi Ajami. At Aleppo Miss Elizabeth Sill of Pittsburgh, in charge of the local Near East Relief, was reported to have been appealed to for help and protection by literally thousands of refugees...
...Local Censorship. The alleged attempt by the Socialist Zaniboni to assassinate Premier Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 16) was, of course, the excuse for much of this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...
Three years ago he stated that Santa Barbara would be shaken. Last summer that prophecy was fulfilled (TIME, July 6). The earthquake was purely local, and failed to relieve the general strain which pulls at the terrain from Elsinore, to San Gabriel, between which, at an angle, lies Los Angeles. Like Dean Mather of Harvard, who predicts a quake for Massachusetts (TIME, Nov. 9), Professor Willis advises people to prepare for the disaster as they would for a famine...