Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little as U.S. military governor, had a Midwesterner's built-in drive to make his city tops. With Lascoe, aloofness was out. He slapped backs all around town, learned to speak fluent German. Because Pforzheimers kowtowed to him as "Herr Gouverneur," he put an ad in the local newspapers: "My title is Mr. Lascoe. Please refrain from use of the word Governor...
University officials spent six years persuading various denominations to support the experiment (e.g., Catholic participation required formal permission of the local bishop). Moreover, since S.U.I, is state-supported, it was felt that only the director's salary and administrative expenses could be included in the university budget. The denominations agreed to pay the faculty salaries, however, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave $35,000 to get the project going...
...those puritanical days there were no athletics. Radcliffe, or other amusements, and peace disturbance was the only outlet, window-breaking and petty larceny in Cambridge became major sports. The year 1658 saw the first town-gown fight, and from then on, students were obliged to obey local police...
...President Leonard Hoar set a precedent by calling in the local gaoler to settle a school problem. An undergraduate was "publickly whipped" by the outsider despite the stormy protest of a frightened student body and an indignant alumni...
...There were 57,000 in all, more than ever before. They were waiting to see Harvard's first All-American since '23, a raw-boned center named in Ben Ticknor. And they were waiting to see the beginning of one of the most colorful stories in the local gridiron history, the memorable battle between Barry Wood and little Albie Booth...