Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...
...American workers continued to elect to office the nominees of the Capitalist owners of the Republican and Democratic parties, laws would be passed inimical to the working class and that in the administration of existing laws the working class would be discriminated against; that my allegations were true the local police department proved to everyone's satisfaction...
...long ago he was ignominiously unseated from the Assembly for bribery in elections: free drinks on election day, free uniforms for the local fire brigade, free cows for peasants of questionable loyalty. In the recent Senatorial elections Senator-Baron Maurice was more cautious. He bought no cows, contented himself with brilliantly elaborate invective against his unfortunate opponent, one Paul Hoeffler...
...detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee's workshop were shown compilations of information of education, commerce, government,? labor, vice and the gangsterism for which Chicago is ill-famed, to which the University is a standing, striving antidote...
...follows that the local system of stars around the Sun, and other stars clouds of our Milky Way, are comparable with the typical external galaxies, resembling especially those of the type of the Magellanic Clouds...