Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached Philly at 8 a.m. Saturday morning and Madar went directly to his hotel, where he bought two local papers to read while eating breakfast. After picking up more "atmosphere" from the pre-game football stories, and checking over what he was supposed to pay particular attention to that afternoon, he enjoyed a nap ("I can never get much sleep on a Pullman...
Superman's activities alternate between the sublime and the petty. He will strain his immortal faculties to save the world (or the universe) from destruction one week, and the next series will find him messing around with a local gambling outfit or solving a murder that any ordinary homicide burean could handle. Strangely enough, these two kinds of adventures consume the same amount of time (two weeks); a fact which tends to confuse the pint-sized audience on the relative values of universe-saving as opposed to the detection of crime...
...values of human dignity, constitutionalism and private property are to be preserved then government, the Twentieth Century Leviathan, must be used as a positive instrument, not only in general but also in particular. Further, instead of trying to preserve an eighteenth century division of functions between the national and local governments they are prepared to experiment with new arrangements. If such attitudes constitute being a 'radical," then the conservative majority needs more such radicalism...
...months later he was back in Paris and playing wingback for an army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
...eight foot rubber balloon and a $50 check, not quite so elastic, will change hands this morning at 9:30 a.m. in the premises of a local Boylston Street delicatessen...