Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lancet, Drs. Deanesly & Parkes reported the results of experiments made on the hunch. They anesthetized five immature male guinea pigs, made slits in their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision. There was no local reaction but a tight coat of connective tissue began to grow around the tablets. After six months the guinea pigs' male sex organs had atrophied, their rudimentary male mammary glands had become greatly enlarged. The tablets were then removed, dried, weighed. It was found that each guinea...
Before the last concert had taken place, Pittsfield was hit by the worst wind and rain storm in local history. Outside the little white auditorium, like a chambered nautilus, the hurricane howled. But to chamber-music fans, storms are merely a loud noise. When the lights went out, they rigged up light for the musicians from an automobile battery, listened away in the dark...
...Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
Reporter Blackburn, continued Mr. Hunter, knew plenty about one case of WPA "inefficiency": Records showed that Blackburn was given a WPA job in January 1936, assigned to a tree-cutting project, suspended for 15 days for drinking "in sufficient amounts 1) to draw the . . . attention of local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told...
Harvey Scott came across the plains in his father's covered wagon from Illinois when he was 14, saw his mother die of plains cholera on the way, helped to bury her beside the trail. He carried a musket in the local Indian "war" in 1855, attended Pacific University and became Portland's first librarian. A short article he wrote about Lincoln's assassination interested Pittock, who hired him in 1865. But five years later they disagreed over politics, and Scott went to the rival Bulletin, later serving as Collector of Customs. In 1877, he returned...