Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...downhill parts of the Buxton road gave Wright the most trouble. He had to lean sharply toward Macclesfield to keep from falling flat. But with a couple of forward-walking friends for company (see cut), Wright backtracked to a modern local record,* 3 hr. 14 min., half a minute better than John Alcock's time...
...paroled and, says Dr. Mott, made "an excellent adjustment" and did "a superb job as a practical nurse and companion housekeeper." Her mental condition kept on getting better. In January she was discharged from the hospital, apparently in excellent mental health, and was getting offers of jobs from local doctors...
...historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has his own way of handling the formula: double the quantities, double the result. Last year, U.S. readers got their first taste of the treatment in The Egyptian, a story of how a local fellah made good with the ladies in the 14th Century B.C. It sold more than 500,000 copies, held first place on bestseller lists for over three months, and still ranks in the top dozen...
Waltari's adventurer, Michael Bast, the bastard of a Finnish strumpet, has been brought up by a middle-aged witch who lies in bed at night and sighs with desire for the local hangman. In this school of adversity Michael learns little of life, grows up to be a sort of cross between Candide and Lanny Budd. He is the kind of young man who gets seduced time & again without quite realizing what is going on, who gives his money to rascals for safekeeping, who signs a paper which helps to prove his wife a witch because a nice...
...Education School will analyze school problems in relation to the school's role in its entire community. After the reports have been filled with the local school boards, the follow-up work will begin in Cambridge with instructors from the four fields...