Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house at Dartmouth College on that March night was fueled with just enough liquor to keep the conversation lively. But after a while the desultory talk started to get a little ugly: the subject of Ray Cirrotta cropped up among the eight undergraduates, among whom were the varsity football center and a second-string lineman...
Skiddy Marden Lund '51, of Newton Center and Adams House, has been named team manager...
When the public-address system blurted out, "Foul on Holstein," the Scottish reporter winced. To mispronounce the name of Willie Houliston (rhymes with fool us none), national hero and ace center-forward for Scotland, was as bad as manhandling the name of Joe DiMaggio. At halftime, the Scots had dribbled and passed rings around St. Louis' All-Stars and led, 3-0, but their hearts weren't really in it. The familiar air of tension and desperation, compounded with an occasional "Hampden roar" (a sustained Scottish cheer which becomes so engulfing that mikes have to be turned down...
Male Swarming. Most mosquitoes are less direct. Their mating habits center around a curious custom that scientists call "swarming." Hundreds of males gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...
...Container Corp. of America, and Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder-chose distant Aspen as the seat of homage because, in the words of Chairman Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, "we thought such a celebration ought to require a pilgrimage." At Aspen, Goethe will be the center of round-table discussions, seminars, symposia and symphony concerts. There the philosophy of "the last Universal Man," will be re-examined in terms of 20th Century problems...