Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Commerce announced that the strike had crippled shipment of $75,000,000 worth of West Coast freight, was adding to that figure at the rate of $3,000,000 per day. Relief rolls were swelling, heavy construction being curtailed, perishable foods intended for export being dumped on local markets. San Francisco's Federation of Churches requested a day of "public and private prayers" for a strike settlement...
...author of "Ward Eight" and the articles "Murder in Massachusetts" and "The Kingfish of Massachusetts," which recently appeared in Harpers Magazine, will be the guest of honor at the weekly House Dinner on Monday. After dinner he will take in the Upper Commen Room on "A Realistic Approach to Local Politics". Outside guests are welcome to the speech...
...analysis of this tendency might trace undergraduate interest to a national awareness of social problems brought about by the depression and undimmed, as yet, by evidence of returning prosperity. But any investigation uncovers more than this. At Harvard the trend is also accounted for by a perfected local organization, a more vigorous personnel, and a desire of budding social scientists, whatever their particular field, to gain their education by actual experience as well as books...
...student daily newspaper, to print what it chose should be virtually annihilated. Their dictatorial decree, enforced by an Editorial Advisory Committee, excluded from the news and editorial columns all "libelous material, improper personal attacks, reckless accusations, opinions not based on fact, inaccurate statements, articles on national, state and local political questions, indecencies, material detrimental to the good conduct of the student body, and material prejudicial to the best interest of the University; and any material in conflict with good taste or wise editorial management." Presumably stories of successful football games are permissible...
...Church to remove the bolts from his window which faced the street thus providing an easy entrance for all those unfortunates finding themselves outside the walls after midnight, but it did take, if not genius, at least courage to appropriate a lock from the door of one of the local pay lavatories and install the lock on his window. And though the lock functioned for only a penny, some say business was so good that the student managed to pay half of his tuition through this ingenious device. And personally I don't doubt it, for, as the story goes...