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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity ruggers wound up their tengame season at Montreal last Saturday with a victory that, according to local experts, just wasn't possible. Playing a return match against the Westmount Club, they stormed to an 8 to 3 win, and brought the season's record up to five wins, four losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Pound to 8-3 Upset Over Montreal; Cricketers' Game Off | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

...most cases this attitude is justified, but last Thursday's disturbance was different; not only was the vigor and unreasonableness of the local riot squad unique in the recent history of Harvard riots, but the disturbance itself was largely caused by the police. Since most of the Faculty were in the quieter reaches of New England, and the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in St. Louis had claimed most of University Hall's occupants, few of those at tomorrow's Faculty meeting can be expected to realize how unique last Thursday's rumpus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot Policy: I | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

Students testifying at a Student Council meeting last night reported that police showed favoritism in releasing local residents. After the statements by students, the Council passed a recommendation protesting brutality by the Cambridge police and suggesting lenience on the part of the University towards those arrested...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof and David L. Halberstam, S | Title: Witnesses Tell Council Of Police Favoritism in Melee | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

When he began his translations, Jerome was already a master of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. To understand the Hebrew Scripture more thoroughly, he hired local rabbis (as he complained, "for no small sum of money") to explain difficult passages-especially the Book of Job. With a good feeling both for Latin and Hebrew, his translation steered the difficult middle course between a literal and a figurative interpretation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Irascible Hermit | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh baker, Reinhold got into the ice-cream business as a boy, chopped ice from a nearby river to freeze his product, and delivered it by wheelbarrow to local drugstores. He built a sizable Pittsburgh business, moved to Florida, and, in 1931, took over the management of Foremost. By expanding into new markets, he boosted sales 50-fold (to $53 million in 1951), has more than doubled Foremost's net (to $1,508,493) in the past five years alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERGERS: The Wayward Cow-Bus | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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