Word: localitis
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Astor: "Yes, but you have not even local agreement...
...their eyes open, lest they fall victims to the same set of stereotypes which rules the American flock good old standbys like the hero of the range, the poor but-honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli, the inhabitanis of old Stamboul will discover themselves westernized with a vengeance--but unfortunately they will find presently that their consequent gain in culture and degree of civilization is almost negligible...
...published. The book is bound in black cloth with scarlet paper sides, illustrated with twelve reproductions from very rare originals in private and semi-public collections, and enclosed in a slide-case. The edition is definitely limited to 500 copies. So great has been the local demand that less than 200 copies are now available...
Malaria investigations in the U. S., Brazil, Nicaragua, Palestine, the Philippine Islands, Salvador and Porto Rico "offered additional proof that under ordinary conditions many communities can reduce malaria to an almost negligible point, at per capita costs which are within the limits of local taxation...
...President commuted his sentence to one month, thus permitting it to be served in a local rather than in a federal penitentiary. The final result was that he, and his associates, served just 30 days in a jail near Tarrytown...