Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in its beginnings, a wit had cracked: "The only thing Rockefeller Center will be used for is a bird sanctuary...
Dominating the neighborhood, the Center has drawn in tenants like a sponge, emptied offices in many another building. Rented was 85% of 5,114,000 square feet of floor space, its two miles of shop frontage. Sixteen hundred companies and their subsidiaries, 25,000 people, lived their business and professional lives there. One hundred and ninety-one elevators, some of them moving at the rate of 1,400 feet a minute, sped this population up & down...
...Center of attention in the most colorful football weekend of the Harvard season, 900 grey-clad Cadets will march through the streets of Cambridge to the Yard this morning at 10 o'clock...
...pass suddenly. At Harvard, the Square will rumble again, and the West Point cadets will march gayly off. Two minutes have ticked away, but their spirit will linger--to be cherished, to be fought for, to be preserved. At Boston Common, Legionnaires will march for Peace. At the Friends' Center, pacifists will debate for Peace. The Massachusetts Youth Committee will distribute exhortative pamphlets. The Anti-War Committee will preach their platform for Peace. The Student Union will counter with theirs. Every voice in the country will be raised towards...
...Downing's first crack at a guard job, although he has played every other position on the line except center. In prep school and as a Freshman he was at tackle; he was an end his Sophomore year and a tackle his Junior year. This fall he was an end up until yesterday afternoon...