Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides the manuscripts, Sir Aurel Stein and myself have brought back from that same cave hundreds of paintings on silk, on hemp, and on paper, embroideries, early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...pointedly ascribes to the Elephant. But the first Tuesday was a troublous time for every one, from the Head of the Pharmacists down: and in the chaos, the pirates have begun to peach on one another. There may be some names in this to be hung in a smaller, local room beside the vast public gallery dedicated to Fall-Doheny-Sinclair. At least the Democrats are entitled to hold that smile, and perhaps to scribble Governor Square down under a sub-head in their long list of Horrible Examples...
Shortly policemen cleared the gallery. The local Chief of Police arrived and personally assured Author-Producer Hasenclever that the situation was now under control. Thereupon the theatre was aired, the curtain rose, and Marriages Are Made in Heaven played to conclusion before a few orchestra-seaters who had daringly straggled back, and many a policeman...
...Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself a champion of honest government...
...that the bankers might support the market to prevent a stock panic. It was thought that "bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...