Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first concert and dance given by the musicians was in the Sinton Hotel on Cincinnati and was under the auspices of the local Harvard Clubs. In St. Louis, scene of the next performance, the clubs combined with the Yale Glee Club for a joint performance, sponsored by the alumni of the two universities...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...Rochester of Washington. * For a description of how the U. S. Chamber's referendum on tax-cutting was taken in at least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President Pierson announced last week that a flood control referendum was taken among all the 1,500 local Chambers of Commerce by sending them the recommendations of a committee of engineers and business men who surveyed the Mississippi flood area this autumn. Accompanying the recommendations was a list of arguments against them. The recommendations favored Federal assumption of all flood control expense. So did the final vote...
...York, England, the dean and the chapter of York Minster waited to receive a local goldsmith. The smith appeared, bearing with him a paten and chalice whose magnificence made the clergy cry out with surprise. The paten (saucer), shown to the public for the first time last week, was of silver and gilt, charmingly wrought; the chalice (goblet) bore a 32 carat diamond, gift, stated the smith, of a Mrs. Howe, lately deceased. Years ago she had ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...