Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There must be something utterly wrong for such a state of affairs to exist, and I can only surmise that local conditions and requirements have not been sufficiently studied. Some faults there undoubtedly are in our salesmanship...
...think we might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...directly behind the auctioneer's desk. The night before he had paid a surprise visit to the stable, stopped at each stall for a last look and pat. He lingered longest at the stall of Miss Muffet, his favorite hunter. Afterward he had stopped in at the local British Legion ball and danced with the wife of his stud groom...
...peak of the local indoor polo season will be reached tonight when the Harvard and Yale riders meet, in the final game of the series at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston. The game is scheduled to begin at 7.45 o'clock and the four 7 1-2 minute chukkers will be played off as rapidly as possible, so that the event will not conflict with the hockey game, later in the evening...
...morning at 12 o'clock comes a lecture dealing with the problems of more local government. Mr. Percy A. Harrison, Director of Examinations in the Massachusetts Civil Service Department, will speak at that time in Harvard 6 on "Some Aspects of the Public Personnel Service." Finally, Professor Johnny Roosval will give an illustrated lecture on "Gothic Architecture in Sweden" at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Museum...