Word: localizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard have a permanent place, not a mere camp site. Information in regard to absentee voting, now being collected by at least one of the clubs, could be kept at all times accessible. Undergraduates would then find it easy to take at least a voting interest in their local politics and to familiarize themselves through gubernatorial campaigns with the issues later reflected in national elections. An active executive committee, even without a large enrolled membership, could inaugurate such other services to the student voter as would suffice to keep his interest and command his respect...
Success at Jonkoping fired all Sweden to imitation. In Central and South Sweden every community had its local factory, fighting competition from older, stronger companies. By the end of the century, those which survived recognized the need of consolidation...
Boston says "she's our weakness now" but Paramount's "friskiest, fastest" comedy fails to hit the high spots promised by it. Clara Bow is a nice little girl out of her element as a hostess in a dance hall, and it seems that she is misunderstood. After the local swains have attempted to discover the talent hidden behind a demure exterior; it finally turns out that the right party happens along, and after the usual expected and unexpected misunderstandings and controversies, the show...
...more Whisper arose to offend the Warrior. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. is an up-and-coming young lawyer in Manhattan. The local Institute for Public Service last week popped out with the report that Lawyer "Al Jr." had received 38 "professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young...
More and more turbulent grew Philadelphia's liquor ring investigation (TIME, Sept. 17). The city's bootleggers, finding the local distilling plants padlocked were not downhearted. They ordered shipments of alcohol from Porto Rico via New York. These goods were seized, however...