Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unofficial war, local and exceedingly private, was waged last week on the Russo-Japanese frontier. During most of the week the Soviet Government officially ignored its existence. The Japanese, on the contrary, reported daily battles, accompanied by heavy barrages of artillery, air and tank attacks...
...Earl has been in no hurry. On the day he ceased to be Prime Minister, he discarded formal morning suit, heavy gold watch chain, and stiff wing collar of Statesmanship, and retired into natty brown and grey suits with colored shirts and soft collars to match. Last week a local horticultural show was staged on the grounds of the Baldwin estate, and neighbors gathered, wondering if the Earl in his address would at last announce his Empire tour...
...every part of the Reich, long lines of workers formed last week at the local branches of German Labor's KdF (Strength through Joy organization). The day had come when they could sign up to buy a luxury never before available to European peasants and proletarians: a motor car. Since Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he has driven the conservative tycoons of the German automobile industry frantic by demanding that they produce a really cheap "People's Car." Last May he finally took the job away from them and at Fallersleben laid the cornerstone...
...Pittsburgh last week the sport market was booming. Citizens who did not know a bunt from a pop fly jabbered baseball and watched the box scores of the local Pirates, recently quoted odds-on favorites to win the National League pennant-something that has not come Pittsburgh's way since...
...half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...