Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that there are so many foreigners at these large places. At the Sorbonne in Paris, for instance, one finds that the percentage of aliens is far greater than of Frenchmen and consequently those who attend might last as well have stayed at home and gone to their own local or state college...
...Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there is frequent mention of a Crimson College, but this refers to a Catholic school for girls. (The name originates in a local euphemism for the "scarlet woman"). The remains of a large library may also account for the non-existence of a totem...
However, outside the older societies, a religious revival grew up spontaneously in the local centres of life and became universal with remarkable rapidity. It even penetrates the commercial organizations of the country so thoroughly indeed that the travelling "agents provocateurs" of the various merchant guilds revived the Rule of the Mendicant Friars in all save one respect, while the guild Chambers of each district devoted a large part of their interests and revenues to philanthropic activities. The old inns were transformed into Churches of Community Service and richly endowed, so that their previous functions became almost incidental. Wayside shrines, often...
...Morocco, General Comte de Chambrun made a successful attack on the heights of Taounat, but was forced to retire after two days, as in the case of the Bibane battle of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 25). All other actions were local. A strong counterattack by Abd-el-Krim, Riff "Sultan," was daily expected...
...state of Washington and the cities of Omaha and Chicago, last week, decrees were issued by the local district attorneys banning from the mails certain publications variously defined as "salacious," "indecent," "pornographic." These decrees, the first conscipuous discrimination against a type of literature that has long fouled the public newsstands and encumbered the mails, were issued without organized cooperation. They are an indication of a resentment that has long been gathering, undirected and unexpressed, in widely separated parts...