Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge" in this case has been to the local courts to find out the rules of procedure for trying Giuliano under U.S. law, and a Norfolk judge has agreed to act as adviser to all concerned. In preparing the evidence in the Giuliano case the seventh-graders have had to give reports on trial by jury, the origin of English law, habeas corpus, the courts and jury system of Connecticut, and other related subjects. At present, according to Mr. Anderson, the status of the case is as follows...
Plainly, I am not "a sports enthusiast." And it is fortunate that Harvard affords sanctuary for that small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...
...Sunday, University of California officials announced that they were going to require all faculty members to sign loyalty oaths. This institution has been under pressure for some time by one of Martin Dies' local chapters--the California state senate's committee on subversive activities. This group has a much sterner loyalty oath bill for teachers pending in the state legislature already. It is quite probable that the university's action was an attempt to forestall this bill...
...Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories with a Los Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid...
...wears with relaxed assurance. She joins forces, romantically and politically, with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society. Some of its finds-notably an overstuffed, off-key performance of the Operatic Society-are bright and amusing. Other bits & pieces have already been tarnished by too much handling...