Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They cleaned the cans off the Heinz sample counter, fell-or jumped-into Fountain Lake, leaped on the revolving platform in the Glass Center patio for a merry-go-round, scrambled up the rigging of the clipper ship Yankee, exchanged black eyes, rushed across flower beds, awed barkers, frightened monkeys in Jungleland, slid down a spiral staircase in the Street of Tomorrow, wrote their names on every virgin wall, on the base of the Perisphere, and George Washington's feet...
...oiligarch who likes portmanteau words based on his name. Such are the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp ("Phillips" riveted to "good turn"), Philmont (his 300,000-acre New Mexico ranch), Philtower and Philcade (his skyscrapers at Tulsa). Oiligarch Phillips last week did a good turn at Tulsa, where the Philbrook Art Center was opened. Its aim: to make culture gush in an oil town once called (by Harper's Magazine) a "cultural Sahara...
...Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls, her bachelor friend is lost to death, found again in spirit, her husband dissolves into alcohol...
PARIS--The French garrison holding Ferbach, center of a bulge extending so deep into the German lines as constantly to threaten the security of Saarbrucken, has been isolated by German howitzer fire, it was announced today...
...scoring took place in a wild first half which saw the lead change hands on three different occasions. A safety scored on Crimson fullback Lothrop Withington, tackled behind his own goal line after recovering a bad pass from center in the first period, proved to be the margin of victory...