Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technically this discovery was still a rumor until 1944 when a forester brought back to Professors H. H. Hu and W. C. Cheng specimens of leaves and cones from three trees that local inhabitants called, "shui-sa" (water fir). Since the material was fragmentary, Hu and Cheng were unable to classify the tree, and so Cheng sent an expedition in 1946. Harvard-trained Hu received part of the material from this trip and forwarded speciments to the Arboretum...
...Local skiing enthusiasts are not the only ones who hope for a long, hard winter; Merrill wants to see if the Metasequoia can stand a Northern habitat. Ideally the Metasequeia grows best in humid regions--Chapel Hill. North Carolina, now holds the record for height here with a 12 and a half foot specimen Shropshire, England, beasts the largest plantation with 2,000 trees...
...impassioned Democrat, Dever has everything to offer: he has supported much of Massachusetts' progressive labor legislation, built badly-needed roads, and subsidized the construction of local schools with state money. To the ardent Republican though, he has done nothing good at all. For him Deverism equals corruption, bloated expenditures, incompetent administration...
Canvassing of Tufts, Boston University, M.I.T., Brandeis, Wellesley, Simmons, Northeastern, and other local colleges was begun last night and will continue throughout the week. Tickets at the College, however, will not go on sale until the latter part of this week...
Piglets for Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sin. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush. When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts. After a brief vogue, even this ventilated version goes out of fashion. When the natives hear of Irma's virginity, they laughingly...