Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...
...news stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...
Yale men have given up the sordid practice of living in sorority houses, according to a recent interview appearing in the columns of the unimpeachable Lamar (Missouri) Democrat with a local girl who has made good--Miss Zula Williams, "one of the dietitians at the great university of Yale...
When a coach inherits a bunch of Sophomores lacking in outstanding ability local sportswriters generally conclude their remarks about the squad with the ancient blurb, "--but the spirit is fine!" It is the choice of this writer to start, rather than conclude, his remarks with the blurb, for if what is called 'spirit' now can be translated into hard training for the duration of the season, then something tangible will have been achieved in the way of improvement. This, Coach Ulen will tell you, comes only from practice of the most strenuous sort...
Explaining the action, Paul Olum '40, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, declared that the honor society's job was "the maintenance of intellectual standards," and linked the local chapter's action with the national organization's current drive for an "intellectual defence fund...