Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local farmers lent a hand as well. The "College Corn" campaign to which each family was asked to contribute a peck of wheat per year supported a dozen scholarships and paid the salaries of the entire faculty during this period...
...Terriers, rated by local sports-writers as the area's top team, beat the Crimson, 3 to 1, at Braves Field early in the season, as a 360 foot home run by Dick Stoico spelled the difference. Today's game is crucial for the varsity's chances in the Greater Boston League. B.U. has already beaten B.C. in addition to the Crimson...
...part-time employee in the University post office, Knaus was arrested January 11, 1951 and accused of stealing $1,500 in University checks. Police said he took the checks out of the mail and then cashed them in local banks with forged signatures...
...change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights...
...Dance, and those who do not happen to like Billy May and stuffy air are not dragged into the IAB. On the other hand any couple that prefers the sanctity and economy of a quiet evening in an individual suite should not be coerced to adjourn to a local...