Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watches are as variegated as they are numerous, including electric clocks, a vacuum clock, pendulum clocks, and two chronometers. Last week several of them saw action for the first time in two years, in spite of the prevailing confusion among Astronomy 1 students concerning Sidereal Time, Greenwich Civil, Local Apparent, Greenwich Apparent, and Mean Time...
...high development of art and government between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries, achieving a very rich civilization, according to museum authorities. The natives lived under a "divine monarchy" and a religious system notorious for its human sacrifices, which annually destroyed many slaves and king's favorites to pacify the local gods. These customs were continued until Benin was subdued by the British in 1897. Today scarcely a trace remains of the ancient city, with its famous palace harem lodging the king's 900 wives...
Lectures and movies of Nanda Devi were shown after the dinner. Nanda Devi is the Indian peak ascended by the club last summer. In the approaching vacation the scalers plan to tackle the Canadian Rockies, in preparation for which practice in local quarries will continue through the Spring...
Green and his popular light opera people are currently playing to sellout Boston houses. Last week they made Crimson news when challenged to a rugby match by the local fifteen...
...proponents of the abortive plan try to drive some sort of a compromise with the President in order to get the measure through at all, the most significant political news of the week comes not from the legislative halls of Washington, but rather from the back rooms of local Republican clubs in New York City. For the Republicans are trying to decide whether to renominate Mayor LaGuardia, and the Little Flower has not hesitated to tell the Republicans in the city where to get off during his administration...