Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...langer home. Week after week they had seen cars, many of them from the U.S., drive down the village's gravel road and stop before the Bélangers' whitewashed house. The visitors were given numbered tickets and ushered into a small, cluttered room. In the center was a round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes and crutches. This was the audience room where miracle-seekers met one of the Bélanger children-either André, 12, Réal, 10, Jeanne...
...from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard tombstone back of the center-field fence...
...Crimson's defense, headed by goalie-captain Whoop Batchelder and sophomore center halfback Pants Pantaleoni, will probably operate more smoothly than the injury-ridden line. But even so, Munro isn't worrying too much...
...House, built in 1900 simply as a students' religious center dedicated to "piety, charity, and hospitality," still respects its original motto. But it since has grown and enlarged itself until today it is the College's volunteer service center with nine committees carrying on day and night activities for both Harvard and the entire Boston community...