Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years he had organized, coached, and captained Alma's first football team, which went through the season undefeated and took the scalp of Michigan Aggies (now Michigan State) 18 to 16. He had been active in Y. M. C. A. work, sprinted on the track squad, joined Zeta Sigma (local), and marched with the Cadets. To top it all, he had gone off in his senior year with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight the Spaniards. Now, in 1898, he was about to get married to a campus sweetheart and start working on a newspaper...
Traditional local indifference received a severe setback in the Union last night as 1000 men of Harvard took part in the University's annual pandemonium meeting, sometimes referred to as the Freshman Smoker...
...always been the policy of this government not to interfere in the local and internal affairs of any of the people who happen to be under our flag, but certainly so flagrant a case as this which apparently is receiving no remedy in that island, makes us question the worth of American institutions as being adapted to the people of Puerto Rico and to the conditions under which they live...
Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...
...Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history. A few are local heroes so obscure and forgotten as to cause derisive mirth among Capitol sightseers. Such a one is the statue of Dr. John Gorrie, sent to Washington by Florida in 1914. Dr. Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after...