Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffer from a bad case of hiccups, head over to the Brattle this week. Yes, gentle folk, it's Horror Time at your local art theatre. Horrors of the Black Museum, the first of the spine-tinglers, will be followed Wednesday by Blood of the Vampire. For the weekend ghoul, there's Horror of Dracula...
...last the World Bank has gotten around to enacting Senator Mike Monroney's excellent proposal for an International Development Association. The new agency will supplement World Bank activities with easier, "softer" loans to underdeveloped nations. Recipients will be able to pay their debts to the IDA in their own local currencies, and they will later receive a second economic boost when this money is used by the agency to buy local products...
Pupils of the future may learn their spelling by machine, study foreign languages by oral-aural laboratory methods and attend lecture-type courses if experiments and demonstrations conducted by the Graduate School of Education and local suburban schools prove successful. The school systems of Lexington, Concord, and Newton are serving as the proving grounds for an eight-year series of innovations in new methods of elementary and secondary school teaching...
...psychological battle that had been going on ever since the Americans had arrived in England. The British constantly regaled their visitors with tales of drinking and smoking during training season, and nearly every night they conducted the Harvard and Yale men on a tour of the local pubs in an effort to substantiate their stories...
Master Taylor said his local situation was "tighter than in several years" with Kirkland House absolutely full and every expected student back. He said he had taken over three spare spaces, but still had seven additional students without proper accommodation...