Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festivities rarely prevented the Justice from asking pointed questions and getting evasive answers. Quoting official Soviet figures, he asked if forced collectivization had not resulted in the disappearance of nearly 1,000,000 of the Kazakh people of Kazakhstan between 1926 and 1939. Replied a local judge blandly: "'One million of Kazakhs must have gone to China...
...Correspondent. In Mexico, N.Y., encouraged by Teacher Lucy Salley to discuss local news, a second-grader stood up before the class, reported: "Last night my mother had a baby, and now I think my aunt's coming down with...
Twenty or thirty years ago the traditional old grad may actually have existed at Harvard. If so, he cried for the coach's scalp whenever the varsity lost to Yale, showed up at his local Harvard Club only when football movies were being shown, contributed to his Class Fund only so that good old '98 could raise a larger Gift than '97, looked forward to his Class Reunions as the most easily rationalized binges of his life, and otherwise--unless he happened to think there were too many New Dealers on the Faculty--pretty much forgot about Harvard...
...Reunions (the Class of '31 plans to spend $130,000 on its 25th anniversary affair). He is likely, however, to know less about Harvard's football record than about its policy in regard to "Communist" Faculty members, to work actively on the schools or scholarship committee of his local Club, to consider just what educational principles he is buying when he writes a check to his Class Fund, and to stray from the Hasty Pudding bar to a New Lecture Hall symposium at least once during a Reunion in Cambridge...
...gradually the activities of both the local Harvard Club and the old grads in it have changed considerably. Of course football coaches still speak and show films at many clubs each year. In 1954-55, however, head coach Lloyd Jordan addressed exactly four full-Club meetings. Meanwhile President Pusey made eleven such appearances, Professor Robert G. Albion seven, Professor Arthur E. Sutherland and Professor Perry Miller three each, and Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, took the year's honors with a grand total of fifteen speeches in Clubs as well-scattered as California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Iowa, South Carolina...