Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, some people at home and abroad thought that he was only going to preach. They soon discovered that this mission ary did a lot of practicing. He not only carried the word into the jungle, quieted the local tribes and performed marriages, but also helped to clear the ground, dam the streams and stop epidemics of fear...
...installment plan. Girls, he recalls, were a nuisance. "I was normal," he says, "but girls bored me. They still do. Their interests are just different." Besides, Walt was busy. After school he worked as a gateman on the Wilson Avenue elevated line, got a Christmas job in the local post office. During summer vacations he worked as a candy butcher on the Katy Railroad...
Walt heard of a job in a commercial art shop at the princely salary of $50 a month, and that decided it. Pretty soon he was getting $35 a week from an outfit that produced animated advertisements to run before the feature at local movie houses. In a few months Walt thought he knew enough to start a studio of his own in the family garage. At 19 he had hit the main drag of his career...
...biography: Dr. Laurence Jones, a 60-year-old Negro educator of great and good-humored dignity. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Jones traveled to the Mississippi backwoods in 1909 and set up a school for Negro children in a district where none had ever existed. A local Negro carpenter gave him a roof by donating some land and fixing up a ramshackle sheep pen on a corner of the property. Today the Piney Woods Country Life School is valued at $500,000, and gives a vocational education to some 500 students a year...
...Twixt the Cup & the Lip. In Gütersloh, Germany, police arrested Friedelina Kleine-Beek after she followed her husband to a local tavern, watched through the window as he raised a glass of beer to his lips, then carefully aimed a rifle and fired, shattering the glass, but leaving her husband unscathed...