Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she patters to the center of a stage, smooths down her dress, poises her small hands like a tiny coffee-colored ballerina, and starts out on a husky, whispery ballad, she seems only a step away from being a Maxine Sullivan or an Ella Fitzgerald. In the records she has made for Columbia, the words sound like jived-up Mother Goose. Sample...
...Manhattan, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists announced that they hope to unite in setting up a "Protestant Center" to house their separate national headquarters. In New York's state legislature a bill was introduced to provide legal machinery for a solution to the ecclesiastical housing problem, but approval of final plans by the churches is likely to take five to ten years...
Those costs would leave in the neighborhood of $400,000 for the auditorium scheduled to be added to Memorial Hall. In the only relevant recent construction estimate, Shepley assigned a figure of $1,250,000 to a proposed Student Activities Center, plans for which included meeting rooms and offices as well as a 1500-seat theater...
...tablet and a $500,000 scholarship fund, the memorial idea favored by all but two of the Committee members at its last meeting, came as a surprise to many people involved in the discussion over memorial plans. The Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center, three representatives of which presented the case for an activities center in the early part of yesterday's meeting, greeted the new plan favorably...
...While we regret the Committee's premise that sufficient funds cannot now be raised to build an entirely new Activities Center, we applaud their recognition of the vital role which an auditorium and extra-curriculum facilities can play in the life of the University. We join them in hoping that a truly significant memorial can be designed within the terms of reference which they have...