Word: localitis
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Meyer is admitted to the bar, enjoys a lucrative criminal practice, joins the local Tammany organization, exchanges services with Big Jim Halloran and Little Tom Halloran, local political bosses...
...young people between the ages of 5 and 20 are scattered over an immense territory under extremely varied social and physical conditions. Two years ago one-fourth of the rural pupils in the U. S. attended one-room schools, which numbered 187,951. The aim of educators now-local, town, county, state and national-is to decrease that number, and to increase the number of institutions like the following, which Mr Abel gives as typical...
...idea of consolidation and transportation is 80 years old. But they will hardly be surprised to learn that New England, and particularly Massachusetts, generated the idea. The town, or township, was the first unit to displace the unsatisfactory "district." In New England, where the town was the unit of local control in all departments of life, districts were abolished as early as 1840; and in 1869 the first step towards community transportation of pupils was taken...
...until some fairly definite expression of public opinion, one way or the other, is had, violations of the law will continue to be flagrant and the present intolerable state of affairs will not be remedied. The question is serious, and undergraduates who cast their votes seriously today in the local referendum upon it will be performing a real service to the country...
...opera, because all the characters speak at once. The result must be striking if not effective. As yet no one is said to have heard the music except Giordano's wife. But the combined popularity of La Cena della Beffe and of Giordano in Italy should make a local success of the opera if its score is anything but excessively inferior...