Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small intellectual elite that runs Korean politics tends to be either Communist or reactionary. "In Korea," said Baldwin, "the middle of the road is conspicuous by its absence. We were unable to find a democratic center." One result is continuous political violence. Korean politicians are hardly safe in their homes...
...Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England's ecclesiastics, historians and architectural esthetes were dead against it. The plan was abandoned; Sir Giles resigned...
...everything inside and spin the sphere," he explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...
...House committees of all seven Houses endorsed the center as a memorial, six of them unanimously. They felt the proposed center would "help the Houses immeasurably by relieving them of the need to provide meeting space for college organizations, thereby allowing the common rooms to be used entirely for House functions...
...addition to the center, the ballots given to students listed proposals for scholarships (receiving a 17.4 percent vote), hockey rink and auditorium (16.9 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), monument statue, plaque, etc. (1.8 percent), as well as space for write-in suggestions, which provided the remainder of the votes