Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for a local repertory company to replace the defunct Cambridge Drama Festival have failed to materialize, Bryant Haliday '49, spokesman for the group, stated last night...
This edict may seem unfair--particularly since it applies even if the seaweed threatens to float away before Monday--but it is not a demonstration of the irrational malice of the local judiciary. The ruling merely upholds the state's Sunday Blue Laws...
...last night as Ted Abernathy baffled the Red Sox with a four-hitter to lead Cookie Lavagetto's men to a 5-3 victory at Fenway Park. Pesky Herb Plews with three blows led the attack for the visitors, while Boston's mighty Ted Williams went hitless, as did local star James W. B. Benkard...
...that "would be obvious to any American newspaper operator." Moving into the Scotsman's gingerbread headquarters on Edinburgh's North Bridge, Thomson stepped up news of the Commonwealth and hired longtime Glasgow Daily Record Editor Alastair M. Dunnett to brighten and broaden the influential Scotsman's local coverage...
...Cricket. The ordinary Indian soldier was called a sepoy, and there were 257,000 of them to 34,000 British troops in all India. Unhappily for the British, the Crimean War and a brace of local disasters had shown that the sahibs were not invincible. Also the Feringis (Europeans) were bigoted enough to abolish suttee. The rumor spread among Moslems and Hindus that the British were trying to make Christians of them. The greased cartridges hit a bull's-eye of hate, and at Meerut 85 sepoys refused duty. After a suitable court-martial, the older mutineers were shackled...