Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern has been similar in all the beatings. A local youth would be walking the streets alone at night. Suddenly he would find himself surrounded by five or six other youths. Then he would be beaten to the ground...
...check with local teenagers revealed that Thursday night's beating may not have been administered by Princeton students after...
...Several local youths indicated this morning that two or three similar beatings have been perpetrated at sporadic intervals over the past year and a half, though none has been so serious as this last...
...days of yore when Indians padded about the local forest, Harvard men tended to stick together. Although hostility of the Indian sort no longer abounds, Harvard tends to look only within its own confines when looking for new professors and thus neglects the talent available at other universities...
...almost universal helpfulness and solicitude of West Indians make the islands a delightful place to visit. Almost everywhere one can find "guest houses" where one will be fed and bedded and regaled with local lore at anywhere from...