Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year at this time the local townsmen sally forth with the late Tex Guinan's greeting on their lips and welcome the Harvards back to Cambridge. They spend all summer thinking up indispensable accessories to the up-to-date undergraduate--banners, magazines, furniture, statues of John Harvard and the Lord knows what--and ten dollar bills don't go far in Harvard Square...
...noticeable. The plant itself was pouring forth war materials on a twenty-four hour a day basis. It was near here, that several Sudetens aired their minds on their side of the picture. "We don't necessarily want to become part of Germany," said one, "all we want is local autonomy. The Czechs won't let us do anything. We can't hold government posts and they force us to learn Czech in school, although we only speak German...
...further developed that White, who was only going to be gone for a short time, had not bothered to put on any clothes. Although stories varied, Jack Bovis '42 was credited with calling the Cambridge Fire Department, conveniently located around the corner. The local smoke-caters were said to have entered the third story window by means of an extension ladder...
...reward notices of rogues, new ond old. On these same walls wee now cavorting much more fearsome bogies, phantasmagoric giants projected by the few candles guttering in the necks of empty liquor bottles. And there was the hero of the occasion, swaying in the midst of admiring passengers and local good fellows. Stodgily and solemnly he repeated his story of discovering a wash-out in the rear of his farm, then trudging through the hurricane to town "in these clothes" (pointing to his town finery), thus saving the express from certainly thundering to its doom...
...Vagabond swore aloud as he suddenly discovered that he had written Albany, New York, in the space marked "College or Local Address...