Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently no Connecticut bank examiner ever went to Shanghai to inspect the books of the Raven Bank, which is incorporated in Connecticut, and thus Banker Raven conducted his business as he pleased, lived quietly in his $150,000 mansion, contributed to local churches, never drank, and invited confidence with the friendly slogan: Deposit Your Money in This Bank and Become A Partner. While her husband sat in a Shanghai jail, Mrs. Raven continued last week to reside in Germany at Heidelberg, where the Raven daughters are completing their higher education...
...bronze plaque on marble base) : for "contributions to the increase of personal mobility" and eloquent advocacy of the cause of research. Roger Adams, 47, chemistry department head of the University of Illinois, 1935 president of the American Chemical Society; the Willard Gibbs medal: for contributions to synthetic organic chemistry (local anesthetics, the chaulmoogric acid treatment for leprosy, space arrangement of atoms...
...measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last as a crown prince of the cosmos, third largest among known spiral nebulae, inferior only to long, loose Messier 33 and the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Because of its nearness Dr. Shapley put it in the local supergalaxy which includes the Milky Way, Messier 33, the Andromeda nebula, the Large and Small Clouds of Magellan...
...Boston since 1908 has been one of the world's great newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor. Because it tries to be "An International Newspaper," intelligent Bostonians who wanted the Monitor's national and foreign coverage have had either to go without most local news or buy another paper. Two years ago the Monitor began printing a daily column of Boston items. Since then local circulation has jumped from...
Last week Boston & New England readers got a whole new section of their own. Local news is briefly reviewed in a six-column, half-page box, dressed up with ordinary and candid photographs, flanked by two longer stories. Other features: weather, radio, finance, amusement, political doings ("Up & Down Beacon Hill"). Space remains for what has always been a vexing Monitor problem: local advertising...