Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumors have been growing steadily more disquieting for at least three years. Last week was the climactic scare point. When news of the Manhattan break flashed to Rio, and when coffee futures began to fall there in sympathy, officials of the local Coffee Exchange became so apprehensive that that night they did not cable their closing prices to Manhattan as usual, fearing that the truth from Rio might aggravate the coffee landslide in the north...
...anesthesia or in the cure of sleeping-sickness, in fueling or fighting fires, in blowing up cities or in dyeing cloth. Its first and perhaps most important use, however, is in supplying the pressure that forces crude oil from the bowels of the earth to the surface. When local gas pressure is exhausted, further working of an oil well is almost prohibitively expensive...
Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15...
...Pawtucket, R. I., Dr. William Rothwell, 63, is known as a good physician, a generous host. For 30 years he has always reached for his wallet, always stood treat. Recently he ordered his tombstone. A great boulder, it now stands, ready, in a local cemetery. His inscription: "This...
...idea expressed three years ago in the pamphlet entitled "The Harvard Law School: Its History. Its Development. Its Needs." There it was said. "There are many signs that our law is on the eve of a period of creative activity analogous to the two classical creative eras in our local history the 17th century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform to an ideal of American society...