Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Birch's laboratory has become a center of research on the nature of the materials of the earth. He has delved into underground conditions of high temperature, chemical solutions, and earthquake wave motion...
...Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...same all over the U.S. Along Detroit's Livernois Avenue, the used-car center of the Midwest, buyers were scarce. Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked empty. He had only 110 cars on display v. nearly 400 in November. Like other dealers, Bert had been unloading his stock as fast as he could, even at a loss. He had cut his payroll from 161 to 31; even so, his men had time, as well as cars, on their hands...
Berlin, who is a philosopher by profession and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, arrived at Harvard in January on what he calls his experiment in General Education. He's lecturing on the "Development of Russian Revolutionary Ideas" in the Regional Studies Program and assisting at the Russian Research Center...
...three Cadet pitchers for 13 hits, their second highest total of the season. This attack included a triple by Ernie Mannino and a homer by Cliff Crosby, which, coming right next to each other, had Arnold Galiffa prancing all over left field, from the foul line into deep left center. Galiffa appeared in left for the first time this season (he usually plays first) in a move calculated to pack more power in to the Army lineup...