Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's aim has been perfectly consistent . . . to curb the excessive powers of local government, which were usually exercised for selfish, and often for seditious ends, and to systematize the judiciary...
...Portland, Ore. boy of 9 and a girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...
...Democratic town, stanch Publisher Taylor died in 1894. The paper was continued by his son Ward and daughter Birdie. Commercially moribund, Jefferson now saw its population shrink to 2,515 by 1910. The city still had an air of faded grandeur, however, sufficient to impress young Barry Benefield, a local boy who later made his home town the scene of best-selling Valiant is the Word for Carrie...
...loyalty to their own institutions given by repressed industrial workers, who in Europe are not as migratory and mobile a class as in the U. S.; 3) a deeply ingrained thrift or savings motive . . . and 4) in recent years, strongly financed central co-operative wholesales able to promote new local societies or assist struggling ones. These factors are absent or relatively absent in the U. S. today...
...When a village girl is caught in the act of love, her mother spends everything they have on a feast for the local big men, hoping that they will then commute her daughter's sentence from death to banishment. They do; the daughter goes off to starve while her penniless mother stays home...