Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only is Bricker's statement false, but the reverse is actually true," Gausdeclared. "The power of state and local governments in greater than ever before and is continually increasing." He explained that federal grants to state and municipal governments for purposes such as housing give these governments their power...
...scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church was so crowded that the Cambridge Review commented...
Within a few weeks, he organized the Council for Delaware Education, Inc., a group built around an executive committee of ten parents. Soon, before Rotary Clubs, American Legion posts, local P.T.A.s and women's clubs, council members were talking about teachers' salaries, overcrowding and lack of equipment...
Eternal Vigilance. In Carlisle, England, Chancellor H. H. King stoutly opposed a move to install a furnace in a local church, defended his stand on the grounds that if the temperature were too comfortable, everyone would go to sleep during the sermons...
...impromptu bar, three foghorns four bells, 20 girls from local educational institutions, and a ten-mile ride in a charted MTA streetcar livened up the twilight hours for the tuxedoed thrill seekers...