Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain rises, Dr. Palely is apprehended walking slowly in a circle within a bare, white-washed room. In the center of the circle upon a swivel chair sits a Wistful Youth. In his mouth is firmly embedded a large wooden bath thermometer. After a lapse of about three minutes Dr. Palely speaks...
...sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant provinces. The center of Chinese government has been the village, and village democracy, in turn, oenters in the office of elder, and seldom reached as far as a provincial loyalty. Moreover, the Chinese life owes a primary allegiance to the clan, and not to the nation itself...
When the burials were unearthed, the party observed that a bowl had been placed over the face of each body, and in the center of the bowl was a round hole. This custom is closely allied to a similar one of the prehistoric Indians of California...
...architects plan to remove the present book stacks on the second floor, and will make the whole floor a single reading room, with the distribution desk in the center...
...center of this room a door will open into a large hall of the West Wing. This hall is to be an exact replica of a judiciary court, and will have in the rear of the room, a small library for the benefit of visiting judges...