Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over a year he shifted from town to town, usually in the rugged, desolate mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...
...other hints had been picked up by wealthy alumni. But if & when Toronto got the money, it would go (together with a $7,000,000 appropriation from the Ontario government) for such things as a men's dormitory, a women's building, a medical research center to be named after Charles H. Best, co-discoverer* of insulin, and the addition to the library that the philosophy professor wanted...
Last week, Baby Michael Goldstein and his sister Karen, 2½, were in the Ophthalmological Institute of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; they had the same disease. Karen had one eye removed; X-ray treatments were begun to try to save the other eye. Baby Michael, eleven months old, lost both eyes...
Coach Barclay's lineup will probably have Smith at center, with John Rockwell and Pete Petrillo at the forwards. Chip Gannon and Dick Covey will be the guards, according to Barclay, whose team is currently becalmed in an eight game losing streak...
Whipple claims that the solar system started with a sprawling system of dust particles. Light-pressure and gravity forced the system to collapse; the center condensed into the sun and the outer clouds coalesced into planets...