Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Sinclair Lewis - son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, - may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith. Yale made no pet of him when he matriculated from Sauk Center, Minn. ; but, after he wrote Main Street, his Yale class asked him to speak at a reunion. Lewis did speak - a brief, baleful curse upon that class...
...angular measurement, .06 of a second of arc - about 25% larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...
...spent three of his long vacations as pastor at Richmond, Maine. Since he began active preaching, he has filled pastorates in Scotland and Australia, going after the war was over to his present position at Birmingham. The Carrs Lane church has an enviable reputation in England as a center of intellectual interest. Jowett, the famous Oxford philosopher, having been the pastor for many years...
...office, his knowledge and sympathy have been invaluable. He gave without reserve of his time and energy. His judgment was almost unerring, his candor and directness refreshing, his humor and appreciation of the standpoint of the students a great aid. In the notable development of the House as a center of charitable and social work in the application of religion, the outstanding thing was Beane's own sincere and simple religiousness and his feeling that true religion was the basis of the work...
...will lead a strong combination next year if this year's Freshman five live up to expectations and the returning members of the University squad make the improvement naturally to be expected. With himself and Slocum, 1928 star, or Jones at forwards, Leekley or Rauh at center, and Malick and probably Barbee of the Freshmen at the guards positions, Coach Wachter will start the coming season with a much rosier outlook than he faced last fall...