Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expansive mood, the Department of Agriculture began two months ago a nationwide series of local meetings to let farmers know what it had in mind for their future welfare. While it was on the subject, it also asked for the farmers' suggestions...
Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...
...narrowest of margins." At the end of the century, "Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Moscow still stand physically undamaged by any enemy action since World War II." Communist regimes still hold much of the world, but both Marxism and its opponents have been somewhat mellowed by "time and local conditions." ¶By the year 2000, the world's oil and natural gas are depleted. Coal is diminishing too. Atomic energy has been a disappointment, but solar energy has become a cheap and inexhaustible source of power. ¶The coal and oil that still remain are not used as fuel...
Orientation is done scientifically at Harvard, and the program varies little from year to year. A meeting is always held at Sanders Theatre the evening after registration, and this year's featured speaker will be R. Keith Kane '22, a Fellow of the College (local patois for a trustee). Most freshmen come away from this meeting full of Harvard history and convinced that their alma mater is not just another college...
...year ago Harvard added former Bruin star Cooney Weiland to its list of coaches, and Weiland has continued to develop good squads as well as interest local talent in the educational advantages of Harvard. His teams have performed strongly in the fast company of Brown, Boston University, and Boston College national playoff sextets...