Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem and last fortnight introduced a $325,000,000 measure retaining the local-payment principle insisted on by President Coolidge but actually costing the States only some $12,000,000. Since this bill did not affect tributaries of the Mississippi, many a Congressman, especially Arkansans, at once attacked it. Debates in both Houses pended, action remained...
...pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself in all manner of local business and civic enterprises, to make Cleveland his world. Like many another War flier, he flew no more, though instinct obliged him to drive his automobile at unearthly speeds...
...true: this man has been governor of the most populous State in the Union for eight of the last ten years. And no one can fill that office for the better part of a decade without encountering at least a few issues which are national as well as local...
...national advertising alone (as contrasted with classified and local store advertising) the Chicago Tribune led the morning & Sunday field; the Pittsburgh Press (Scripps-Howard) led the evening & Sunday field; the Newark News led the six-day evening field...
...cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage, contained many 'local gags'. All example is the passage in the induction about 'Marian Hocket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot'. Shakespeare, without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical element, and this...