Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from dozens of local researches on political trends, the major national reports to date include...
Being an alumnus of Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn., I have noticed this with interest since, in the South, this remark has always been attributed to the late William R. ("Old Sawney") Webb who founded Webb School in Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870. Due to the pressure of the local "Wets," "Old Sawney," an ardent Prohibitionist, found it expedient to move. At the request of the townspeople of Bell Buckle, who built him a schoolhouse as an inducement to come, he moved the school there in 1888. In moving, the schoolbody came in spring wagons holding classes...
...allowed to inspect these same buildings and compel obedience to local laws against fire hazards. Informed of this at his press conference next day, the President declared that Government edifices certainly should conform to fire laws. Then a newshawk pointed out that the entrance door of his own Executive Offices broke the laws by opening inward...
Military operations came to a virtual standstill and Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that the local British and French diplomats were trying to arrange with Yankee Colson some sort of "Christmas Truce...
Since Clara Phillips beat out Alberta Meadows' brains near Los Angeles 13 years ago, a hammer seemed to California editors the most glamorous of all murder weapons. Last week a Los Angeles citizen interested enough to buy copies of all his local newspapers could have pieced together the following picturesque account of Mrs. Willys' feat...