Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad, empty thoroughfares. Shop fronts and some of the pillboxes at main intersections were boarded up. Jagged walls in the sprawling Japanese factory areas, blasted by U.S. bombers during the war and later pillaged by Russian occupation forces in 1946, stood silhouetted against a steel-grey sky. Mukden, center of one of the world's potentially richest agricultural and industrial areas, looked as cold and desolate as the ragged half-frozen refugees picking their way through the debris on every street...
...game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure...
...three seasons, 152-lb. Bronko McGugan has diligently warmed the bench as fifth-string center. At the University of Oklahoma he got none of the footballers' privileges except that of hurling himself against 220-lb. varsity men in practice. He did that so enthusiastically that two hefty teammates once decided to put him in his place: they double-blocked him out of the play, scooped him up and carried him over to the sidelines, where they plopped down on top of him. But Bronko was the first to bounce up. Said he, cheerfully: "Nice block, fellows." When the coaches...
Citation, whose stride is around 21 ft, was running with his usual superb rhythm and his air of immense power cautiously controlled. Then in the stretch the phantoms faded and there was only Citation striding forcefully down the center of the track. His time was 1:59 1/5 for the 1 3/16 miles, with nobody pressing...
...Oppenheimer's good fortune that in 1928 a center of the world's ablest and most vigorous physicists was also in the west - at the California Institute of Technology, to which they had been pulled by such powerful magnets as Robert Millikan and Richard Tolman. Oppenheimer recognized that CalTech had a great deal to offer. At that time, by contrast, the University of California seemed to have "a hick school of science." Both wanted him ; he arranged to oscillate between...