Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five local concerts have been scheduled for the Instrumental clubs before the Christmas holidays. The first will be on Friday, December 6th, at Winchester, followed on Saturday, December 7th, at Governor Dummer Academy...
...bicycle, it would seem, is back to stay. Encouraged by the example of certain irreproachable members of the Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...
...Surgeons continued to ignore him by failing to give him a place in their cancer symposium. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., the ingoing president of the College, anticipating Dr. Coffey's argument, simply said: "Cancer is curable if it is removed while it is a local disease. Cure of cancer by advertised extracts, serums, and so forth is a myth...
...surgeons' convention also provided plenty of good, sound, workaday surgery. For weeks California surgeons had been saving up their extraordinary cases to demonstrate their virtuosity to their visiting fellows. Sightseers repaid the local surgeons by giving them many a wise bit of counsel, among which were the following...
Chief characteristic of "Dave" Stern is his pugnacious aggressiveness. A practicing journalist who puts a high price on the power of his editorials, he picked up the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times in 1912, sold it at a profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks...