Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet at the Boston Garden. Boston and Harvard have already their share of track features during the winter: the B. A. A. games, the Knights of Columbus games, and the Triangular meeting of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard the very week before the intercollegiate championships. This year, with all the local avidity for track sports, the Triangular meet suffered at the hands of professional hockey games, and other attractions. Set down in the middle of Boston's crowded winter season, the intercollegiate meet would be a drug on the market. It is doubtful, too, if the Garden arena is large enough...
Poor Mr. Crick has amply proved that he has no flair for names of 58 letters and longer. Local Welshmen and Welshwomen have been getting each other's mail, and opening some of it, too. In despair, last week, Postmaster Crick resigned and enlisted in the Navy. Therefore Sir William Mitchell Thomson, His Majesty's Postmaster General, was earnestly besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really...
...Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down, but it didn...
...Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion and improvement of schools." He must also publish "a number of bulletins and miscellaneous publications." He also supervises the reindeer industry in Alaska...
...promise of a bumper crop of Yale superlatives. "Greatest social celebrity", "Most entertaining", "Best looking", and "best dressed" seem to flourish particularly well in the warm climate farther south, and bring home to those in Cambridge the difficulty of cultivating the same sort of thing under the exigencies of local conditions. Nothing but the most artificially regulated amosphere can develop analogous products within a radius of ten miles from Harvard Square...