Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest shiftlessness be encouraged, it was proposed that only 75% of each farmer's crop be insured. Individual premiums would be based on average yield, be assessed by a local committee. The farmer could pay several years' premiums out of one bumper crop, might pay and be paid in cash if he chose. But there would be no insurance against price drops. The committee thought a $100,000,000 appropriation would be enough to get the system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers...
...large campuses have little groups of earnest and not badly informed serious thinkers bewildering themselves about the modern world, but their influence on the tone of the campus is as narrow as that of the local Phi Beta Kappa. . . . There is hardly a trace of it in the Mississippi Valley...
...railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded." Reason: when an express meets or overtakes a local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which...
West. A relic of the days when basketball rules as well as basketball rivalries were purely local are conventions of play like the Pacific Coast Conference system whereby each team plays its rivals four times, twice on each one's court. Last week Stanford, apparently the best team in, its Conference and one of the best in the country, beat California at Berkeley, 36-to-32, in a game featured by the fact that its 6 ft. 3 in. forward, Hank Luisetti, whom Coach John Bunn calls the greatest player in the history of the game, was held...
...Leverett Saltonstall '14, whose talk was based on the many points underlying the general subject of the Conference. "The Role of Government in the National Economy." He declared that what everyone wanted, regardless of what side he was on, was the more efficient management of all government, whether local, state, or federal...