Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denied: 1) many a Congressional relative does roost on the House payroll, even though he or she may have to work for the privilege while Congress is in session; 2) short-handed though many are, a Congressman often keeps one of his secretaries at home to watch his local fences...
...Every poet, I think, ought to be something of a local poet," Coffin says, and thus he expresses the conviction that knowledge of one's subject, contact with it through personal experience, is the main guarantee of poetic inspiration. And as a local poet, he can assume, in his own words, that he is a "representative of the people." There is more than merely a simple exposition of peculiar traits indigenous to Maine in his poems. He who would classify Coffin as a provincialist, limited in scope to the portrayal of a single group of individuals, might as well judge...
...affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, an A. F. of L. member whose motto is "democracy in education, education for democracy," the local Union has grown rapidly since it was organized by 35 Harvard, M. I. T., and Tufts teachers...
...largest teachers local in Massachusetts, and is exceeded in size only by the New York local...
That President Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...