Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven of his letters published,* all since Nov. 27, 1950, although he first started writing us three years ago. His most recent nominated "a once stalwart gent known as Dollar Bill" to be runner-up to the Man of the Year. Another of his letters, suggesting that a local Airedale was "a perfect Hollywood glamour girl," brought "comments by the dozens and dozens," he told us. "The rector called me on the phone to give his blessing; a man stopped me on the trolley to say how much he liked the . . . letter, and a friend told me she enjoys reading...
...letter asked students to let the Bureaus know on working plans for next year. It stated that it wanted to be able to assure all applicants of good jobs next year. It referred to the fact that many Harvard Clubs try to find jobs for local undergraduates during the summer. The Bureaus offered to provide "Harvard Club contacts wherever possible...
Among the expressions of Christmastide cheer received by many men between the ages of eighteen-and-one-half and twenty-six were induction notices from local draft boards across the nation. The event was marked with the haphazardness typical of the present draft setup...
...present, the more aroused he becomes. The book follows his by now familiar pattern. Hopping blithely from region to region, and painting bold frescoes of their literary manners, it brings scores of writers to life in sharp, sympathetic vignettes. Each chapter is richly coated with anecdote and local color; in fact, the book has more of the quality of storytelling than of toughly analytical criticism...
Even the least observant have noticed the deterioration of local thoroughfares. When holidays started, they were relatively clear; now they are coated with a most unpleasant layer of slippery material. The shortest reading period in the memory of most inhabitants does not add any discernible note of joy, either. It was inevitable, of course--a confluence of the phases of the moon and the by-laws of the Corporation--but its immediate presence lends it no special enchantment...