Word: localitis
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...training is not the result of chance or of the action of local school or public officials. It is not the mere contagion of a purpose temporarily in the minds of many people. It is encouraged, supervised and regulated by the War Department. The purpose is to make soldiers. It is not training in citizenship, or any vague and ill-defined training of a general military nature. The official object is to provide systematic military training at civil educational institutions for the purpose of qualifying selected students of such institutions for appointment as reserve officers in the military forces...
...serious-minded queried: "What were the deputies shouting about this time?" The bone of contention, it seems, was the new proposal virtually suppressing local self-government in 7500 of Italy's 9,000 municipalities and replacing the locally elected mayors and town councils by appointees of the Central Government to be known as "podestas" (TIME...
Critics opined that the installation of a U. S. Mayor at Callao is in line with President Leguía's known policy of favoring U. S. citizens in matters civil and local. At the same time it was recalled that he has contended bitterly for every last square inch of Tacna-Arica which can be allocated to Peru under President Coolidge's award (TIME, April...
...copy desk sit the men who edit the local stories in a daily newspaper...
...approved yesterday by student-delegates from twenty-three colleges to the Inter-collegiate Parley on Education at Wesleyan University is the most significant development that has yet occurred in the movement to reduce the emphasis upon college football. It is now evident that the movement is of no merely local or sectional interest, but is a national reaction of college students against the existing maladjustment between athletics and scholarship...