Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students by eminent professional men; personal interviews with company representatives or alumni or business men; and books and pamphlets are all valuable sources of information. But they should all be directed and coordinated by one man, perhaps with assistants, whose office should be a clearing-house and permanent center. It seems essential that this man be impartial, with no axe to grind as in the case of a company representative. He should be well informed, at least having access through other persons to information on any technical subject. He should be permanent and always accessible, to keep him in contact...
Ticknor May Play Center Garden...
Scarcely have the powers that be obtained an armistice in the battle of the Ganns before another and even more momentous controversy comes to shake the tents of the mighty. Such issues as reparations, disarmament, and the World Court pall before the present earthquake in America's diplomatic center. Even the most weighty questions of social precedence must give way before the spectral hint of prohibition in the British embassy...
...Fokker outstanding stock) gained control. In part payment for the Fokker stock, General Motors turned over to Fokker the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Co., assets of which consist mainly of Wright Field, Dayton Aviation Field adjoining the famed but abandoned McCook Field (Wartime Army aviation center) and also a large number of aviation patents.* Following so closely upon General Motors' acquisition of a 25% interest in Bendix Aviation Corp., makers of airplane accessories (TIME, April 22), the Fokker transaction emphatically located General Motors in the aviation field...
Slocum, the first speaker, spoke on how the proposed Advocate building would fit into the House Plan of the University. Child discussed the importance of a literary organization as a center of intellectual activity in the life of the University, and how this would inevitably redound to the benefit of the University at large...