Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
...traders made the most of the incident -and furnished economically backward Yemen a perfect illustration of the law of supply & demand. While the shooting was still going on, tireless scavengers on both sides of the embattled border had diligently collected the bullets from the bullet-riddled countryside; on the local market, the price of lead was down...
...sharp and speedy investigation that brought Albert Guay before the bar. Five days after the crash a coroner's jury, which had studied reports on the broken wreckage of the unburned plane, blamed the disaster on a "mysterious explosion in a forward luggage compartment." Company investigators and local police were already on the job. The Mounties moved in. An airport clerk had reported that all packages but one aboard the DC-3 had been shipped by well-known shippers. The exception was checked...
...make a start, Oakeshott in 1946 got a promise of financial aid from the local school board and reserved 25 places at slightly reduced fees (?226) for boys from state-financed primary schools. But of the 40 examined, only three could pass the entrance exams, with their emphasis on Latin and Greek. In 1947, 25 were examined and none could pass: Winchester still had to draw its new boys from private primary schools. Last year again no qualified students were found among the state-school applicants. Oakeshott's proposed solution: better education in the government's schools. "Then...
Instead of tuning in the networks' "outstanding" games of the week, most U.S. football fans would much rather listen to local broadcasts so they can root for their favorite teams...