Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With Freshman grades and honors graduates well on the upswing, Dean Hanford points to CRIMSON Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses as example of student help in academic activities, Dudley Hall made social center for commuters unable to participate in the House system...
Fisher's toss of 172 feet, 11 3/4 inches broke the Harvard record by two feet, 10 3/4 inches, and manager George Caploe should actually be credited with an assist Friday night at the famous Homestead restaurant, after the trials, Caploe offered to buy the former Varsity center a two inch sirloin steak if he would break the record Saturday. Fisher, with customary indifference, said he couldn't promise anything but that he would "go all out" to set a new record. He got the steak dinner...
...Manhattan, a group of comic-strip addicts formed the American Society for the Advancement of the Piebald Eyeball, solemnly pledged themselves always to pencil dots in the center of Little Orphan Annie's eyes before turning to the sports page...
...four months, ten of the world's most honored architects had stood together in a Rockefeller Center drafting room, playing with blocks, scribbling sketches, and disagreeing in a half dozen languages. Their own small quarrels were only the beginning. Last week their published plans for a skyscraper United Nations headquarters set off a louder dispute...
...headed the planning team, U.S. Architect Wallace Kirkman Harrison, had expected criticism; Rockefeller Center, which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...