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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...energetic Hap Arnold had a bad heart. Last week he rose early, as usual, and told his wife he "felt pretty good." A few minutes later, his wife said, he "sat down on the bed and collapsed." By the time the local doctor arrived, Hap Arnold, 63, was dead. Said Dr. Russel V. Lee: "He should have quit during the war when he had his first attack [in 1944]. But things were hot then and he decided to take his chances with the rest of the soldiers and went back to duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Five-Star Hap | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...foul. Somebody cracked: "This is one thing you can't blame on the Socialist government," and somebody laughed. Somebody started a song; the rest joined in. Afterwards, Cook Ray Fry said: "It didn't seem long, because everyone laughed and joked as if they were in the local [pub]. But you felt bad inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Off Shivering Sand | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Spilambertians said that it had been given to their town many years ago by Baldassarre Castiglione, a local resident who collected river stones, old guns and butterflies. Castiglione was remembered for the cannon, and for his habit of punishing his walking stick, when it fell to the ground, by standing it for three days in a corner of the room. San Cesarians said that the cannon was originally theirs, and they lent it for one day in 1880 to the Spilambertians, who would not give it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Tale of Two Villages | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Barring unforeseen journalistic efforts by Harvard Yearbook Publications, Crimson newsboys will be taking a day off Monday. Subscribers may rest assured, however, that the local sheet will be lying outside their doors as they stagger out to exams Tuesday morning and that it will be the real thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

...Morton Sills, wife of a local clothier, who lost the ring while pulling off her tight, new glove, reported the loss to a traffic patrolman. He checked with jewelry stores in the vicinity, where he discovered that the ring had turned up in the hands of an unidentified student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Watch for Lost $1000 Ring | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

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