Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard tennis team made it eight in a row by defeating the Bowdoin College players, 9 to 0, on the Jarvis Field courts yesterday afternoon. The encounter was an easy victory for the local team, only two matches going to three sets...
...HUTCHINS Manager, Advertising Department The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. Akron, Ohio. I find, on making a further check, that the regular Department of Commerce license has not been received but is expected shortly. The ship has met all the requirements of the Department of Commerce. The local Department of Commerce representative checked over this, flew it, tested it - -and, pending the arrival of the regular license, an experimental license was issued. TIME'S correspondent did not eye-witness the Kreider-Bruce crash. Practically all accounts agreed that the rising ship had just taken off. Reports conflicted...
...difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner, for example-someone who could continue Tammany's influence in the National Democracy...
Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...
Another important change prevents local winners from competing again until at least a year has elapsed since their first success. This means that only men who win a contest in their Freshman or Sophomore years will have a chance to win the prize a second time...