Word: localisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leahy added that the worst complaints were caused by the actions of local girls who were "under the influence" and definitely too young...
Once again calling upon the University for more cooperation with local officials, the City Council last night unanimously requested the Fellows of Harvard University to hand over to the city a narrow "Polish Corridor" of land...
Cochrane is a local boy, and hails from Brookline. He became interested in radio at the age of fourteen while he was at Brookline High School, and received his license from the Federal Bureau of Communications before his fifteenth birthday. He must be able to send and receive 13 words per minute on the Morse key, know every detail of the construction of his apparatus, and besides that be absolutely up-to-date on the latest radio legislation. There are many rules that have been established for the control of the various short wave bands and unless...
...Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen for a Lonesome Drum), countrywide correspondent for Pursuit of Happiness, reported the 175th anniversary of the founding...
Speakers will include Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the University Observatory, and Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and chairman of the local branch of the Association...