Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Conant last night stated in a speech at the Needham High School that "the tradition of local control of our schools is a vital part of the whole American concept of democracy...
...must strengthen this tradition by making certain that the local control reflects the best thinking of the community," he said. He remarked, "Our vast system of public schools is both an instrument of forwarding American democracy and a concrete manifestation of that idealism which is the essence of the spirit of this republic...
Conant declared that nowhere else in the world today do local communities support free education as in the U.S., and that such schools have made American democracy what...
...Vancouver, 17-year-old Robert Lealess read Curator Key's comments with glee. He handed the picture and the curator's letter to the local press, explaining that Melancholia in a Swamp was nothing but a piece of cardboard that had been used by commercial artists for wiping their brushes and testing their spray guns. All Lealess did was pick it out of the wastebasket, mount it and give it a title...
Inflation. In Richfield, Minn., after the State Bank celebrated its fifth anniversary by passing out wooden nickels that had cost it 8? each, local merchants accepted the coins at face value...