Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing. The Conservative's policy of allowing private individuals to construct their own homes, instead of waiting their turn for publicly built ones, has succeeded moderately well. In order to outdo the Tories, Labourites have promised to urge that all houses rented for profit by individuals be purchased by local municipal authorities. The result would be equalized rents. They have also urged equality of educational opportunity by proposing that everyone who passes the entrance examination to a university receive an automatic state scholarship...
...Edward Randolph Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, pointed out to the 66th annual convention of his diocese in Carthage that for Christianity's first thousand years or so, the making of a saint was a purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...
...idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...
...students of the war-ravaged high school on Hamburg's grey Thedestrasse, the prospect of ever getting a proper place to play seemed just about hopeless. Then, one day in 1950, Teacher Walter Pareik spotted an ad in a local paper: a certain farmer was offering to pay 2.20 Deutsche Marks (52?) for no Ibs. of potato peels for hog feed. If one farmer was willing to spend that kind of money, reasoned Teacher Pareik, why not others? Perhaps the Thedestrasse high school should go into business...
...schools in the south, those of the north are jammed to overflowing. In Limoges, some lycée students sit three to a table; others have to use their knees as desks. In Rouen, classes meet on stairways, and in Le Mans, students must share a building with the local Garde Républicaine...