Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing gratification, J. H. McAllister of the Babylon Leader explained: "It's an old Indian name-somewhere between a grunt and something else." The ordinary Babylonian...
...down presumptuous man. This did not happen. The world's population had doubled since Malthus' time, from one billion to two, but new lands were cultivated and old lands made more productive. Better transportation brought surplus food from afar to feed the hungry industrial cities. There were local famines, as there had always been, but the world never ran out of food. The gloomy Malthus, who had underestimated both nature's resources and man's resourcefulness, had been wrong...
...soon took to making sheep's eyes at a banker's beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next...
Grand Rapids, Andover, Mass, and Baltimore. Local decorators in each city will design new interiors to go with several of the wallpapers, and possibly local painters will be tempted to try their hands at an art form as big as a room...