Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door opened again. "One minute, Mr. Hickey." Ed Macauley, the string-bean (6 ft. 8 in.) center who is probably 1948's best college basketball player, nervously wiped his ashen face. "And remember," said the little man, "conserve your energies on offense. You can't rest on defense." The boys bounded up from the benches; clapping and shouting, they moved into a huddle. Hands piled on hands, players and coach recited a Hail Mary at abracadabra speed, ended it: "Mary, Queen of Victory, pray for us." Then Edgar Hickey and his St. Louis University Billikens were ready...
...time the score was 41-24, Macauley had scored as many points as the whole N.Y.U. team put together. He had also guarded and faked the shoes off N.Y.U.'s vaunted Center Adolph Schayes. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard (Jake) Cann twice pulled Schayes out of the game, pointedly ignored him on the bench...
Long before the New Testament was collected and canonized, the Communion was the core and center of the faith of the tiny Christian sect. They met to celebrate it in private houses. Outsiders were exeluded; even "catechumens" (those not yet baptized) were permitted to be present only for part of the rite. And for centuries they met as outlaws in danger of death...
...place to live, any Leverett man will recommend it; as an activities center or a forum for breakfast table education, the hutch is non-existent. The days of athletic supremacy have also faded into Leverett's current mediocrity...
Allegedly placed there by "thirty students," a papier mache elephant's head adorned the center of the restrum, and signs--of which "Save an Elephant! Volunteer Today! Be Personally Vivisected!" is representative were on the walls...