Word: localitis
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...would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard is the discovery of the Mexican Christmas flower. "Shade of Linnaeus!" What plant is this? We doubt if the avid soil of Mexico could produce it. We fear it needed the greater fertility of Mr. Parsons' imagination. Mr. Carroll's story...
...course. Furthermore, unlike other offensives, this is prominent for the ground gained. Communications with Zeebrugee and Ostend are seriously threatened. The fact that these submarine bases are endangered means that the British are gaining something more than mere proof of their superiority. All terrain captured heretofore has had comparatively local importance, but this new steady drive may surprise the most pessimistic of us as well as the Germans. Further progress on the same line is a check on the submarine campaign and a step toward victory...
...responsibility does not end there. This war is not Italy's war alone. It is the war of all the Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated, it is bound to result in local successes by the Germans, who coordinate everything--who control every detail and every portion of their far-flung line from a central and single source. --Boston Transcript...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...
...local committee of the National Security League has expressed the desire that a large delegation from the University be present at the "Win the War Meeting" in Tremont Temple at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Its purpose will be to arouse national enthusiasm and a closer interest in the war. The Hon. John L. Bates is to preside, and Governor McCall will speak. The other speakers are the Hon. James M. Beck of New York and Dr. John Douglas Adam. Mr. Beck is the author of "The Evidence of the Case" and other war documents. Dr. Adam has been...