Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside interference'. . . . The principle he has now stated would seem to recognize the right of the Committee on Industrial Organization to carry on the steel campaign and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the sharecroppers and field-workers in Arkansas without being subject to the tyranny of local sheriffs...
...Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead of her in the Nottingham...
...automobile accidents killed 37,000 persons, permanently crippled 105,000, hurt 1,000,000 more, with a total property loss of some $1,600,000,000. One of the first to see that this carnage and waste on the highways was not due to a flock of local factors but to a few basic inefficiencies was a young Leland Stanford graduate named Miller McClintock...
...imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their farm at Deerfield Settlement, shifts to a glimpse of the local militia harrying suspected Loyalists, to the burning of Deerfield, the battle of Oriskany, the negotiations with Indians, the life of scouts and "timber beasts," the daily routine in stockades when the raiding parties were strong. Holding fast to the known history of the period, Author Edmonds has invented only...
...masks will not be distributed wholesale throughout Britain but will be kept in central storehouses in every village and town. "Local authorities," read last week's announcement, "will provide facilities where masks may be tried on and fitted. It is hoped that the public will take advantage of the opportunity...