Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never knows who may to scrutinize his post. It's may be a prospective employer, in which case the records to college extracurricular affiliations kept in University Hall are a boon. Or it might be the local investigation committee. Disputes over the membership list requirement usually center on this somewhat hypothetical, but nonetheless menacing, possibility, but recently the Council has attacked it on both counts...
...varsity sailing team continued to demonstrate its local superiority -- statistically as well as competitively -- with the revision yesterday that Crimson skipper had placed first second, and seventh in the New England rankings for the spring...
Escape to distant parts is always the traditional method of evading responsibility, while taking a girl with you makes that escape infinitely more enjoyable. What, therefore, could be more logical than taking off with some beauty to a local spot known for its food, dancing liquor, or all three? The truth of the matter is that nothing could be more logical than this, yet the difficulty still remains of finding a suitable spot...
Places in the Square hardly provide any means of escape. In any local bistro at this time of year you will probably find the people in the opposite booth discussing an exam and the people in the adjoining booth studying for one. Local spots, therefore, are out of the question, so far as the well-informed Harvard man is concerned...
Grandfather Chambers, a Philadelphia newspaperman, had a different foible: every time he came to visit, he took the two little boys on his tours of the local bars. "By the time I was nine or ten," says Chambers, "my grandfather had dragged me through most of the saloons in eastern Long Island . . . Saloons, I early discovered, were singularly tranquil places...