Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important recommendations of the report was the establishment of a special fund to finance small research projects. The report criticized the heavy teaching and research loads carried by the faculty in the six fields. And it suggested developing closer ties with local universities to prevent unnecessary duplication in new appointments...
...example, it felt that instruction and research in state and local government was weak. The report also pointed out areas in general education for expansion...
Nevertheless, one local store has already made arrangements to protect its windows. In the 1950 riot, 13 Harvard and Yale students were arrested, after attacks on trolleys and trucks and the explosion of a number of firecrackers and sky-rockets...
...18th century South America. As Camilla, the troupe's earthy and impetuous leading lady, Miss Magnani wins the love of the colony's viceroy, who is understandably bored with the elegant dullness of his court. He tries to give her his golden coach as a present, but the local nobility objects, and finally Camilla herself must save him his viceroyalty by sacrificing the coach to the Bishop, who seems to be the colony's real boss anyway...
...point, she suspected that the local native trader was running a backroom brothel in his shop: behind a curtain, "there was laughter and low moaning and exclamations of surprise and delight." As it turned out. the trader was simply charging admission for a look at U.S. magazines. The Atlantic Monthly "is not worth even one peanut with a worm inside." The New Yorker and Esquire were in some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE...