Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, let us pray that the practice of certain local prep schools is equally abhorrent to the powers-of-change. Before each game, clucking masters herd the schoolboys--all of them--into a long line without the gates. They march to their seats, through the turnstiles, singing a lusty (sic) chorus of the old school song...
Like the blossoming flowers of May, Harvard's annual crop of water pistols has sprouted. Thousands of guns more colorful than a flower show in full bloom suddenly appeared since spring vacation. Sales are booming. Local stores call Harvard the "Arsenal of the East," and proudly claim part in its newest sport...
...game of judgment, it is unequalled. As a cure for spring fever, it is guaranteed. But as the newest sport in collegiate circles, it is rejected, at least on local ground. The H.A.A. lacks the funds to send a team on road trips...
...aggression, and accused its armies of preying on the countryside and instituting a "veritable reign of terror-looting, pillaging, raping and murdering." The Burmese said that the original Li Mi force of 1,700 men had been built up into an army of 12,000 by local recruiting, and was now commanded by Chinese Nationalist General Liu Kuo-chuan. The whereabouts of General Li Mi was now something of a mystery: the Nationalists say he is in Formosa recovering from a stroke; the Burmese say he was almost captured there a week...
...rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years, to Caro Blymyer, a dark-eyed Cincinnati girl who was a direct descendant of Miles Standish...