Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have for years, should be violently discouraged from continuing their activities around Cambridge...
...Local political outcomes will provide more detailed evidence of party strength: by geography, by issues, by personalities...
Between the Japanese Army and Navy rivalry is always intense and in the China war local army and navy bigwigs have frequently worked at cross purposes. When the army columns belatedly arrived in Hankow last week the army commanders decided to use buildings in the refugee zone as troop billets and Father Jacquinot, after spending thousands of dollars of relief money, was ordered out. A new zone was established in the Chinese native sector on the Han River...
...Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey...
...action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles in the caverns of his reversible for a pipe. Then the shiny, long, important train pokes its headlight around the curve and eyes the station platform for a moment. Slowly, deliberately, it chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between the sheets. It sight placidly once or twice, then relaxes. Vag stands beside the engine, his pipe glowing like a miniature firebox...