Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . There are two systems in vogue for handling the referendums of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Some organizations send out ballots to each and every member of their local organization. This gives an excellent cross section of the opinion in that community. The other method and the one used by our organization is just as effective. Our committee on National Affairs makes a thorough study of the referundum, taking into consideration the arguments both pro and con. Their resolution is then placed before the Board of Directors made up of 21 leading men in the community...
...journalism is obviously open to doubt. Where, however, the issue is a more flagrant violation of a professional code than the worst advertisements of a medico, there seems no reason why any newspaper should be constrained to silence. The issue at point, while involving a tabloid paper in its local manifestation, is not to be classed with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence of death for murder has been visited by two ghosts-the first, and apparently more important, that...
Squash now holds an enthusiasm that has many marks of permanency. Among them, the fact that its growth is not local, but nation-wide, seems to lend credence to the belief that additional courts would not go unused. It would be agreeable if Harvard, with the solution of some of her other athletic problems already in sight, should be able to satisfy a young but lustily growing need...
Only when startling records are set does cold weather become hot news. Startling, last fortnight, was a whole series of such records, observed with attendant local hardships throughout most of Europe and the Near East. Parisians had not been so cold in 15 years, Londoners in 32, Romans in 80 years...
Travelling south the instrumentalists next played in Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve. There the clubs were taken in charge and entertained by the local Junior League. In Atlanta, Georgia, the next stop, the entire group on the tip was given all the privileges of the Athletic Club through the kindness of R. T. Jones Jr. '24, holder of the United States Open Golf Championship, and after the concert in the Women's Club, attended the annual dance at the piedmont Driving Club...