Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page book over that of Harry Cowles' compressed volume. Skillman proceeds at leisure over the same ground which the "Art of Squash Racquets" tries to cover in 88 pages. He is more precise in his instructions. For example: instead of merely telling the novice always to return to the center of the court, he shows him exactly where his feet should be while waiting at the center. At the back of his book he includes the United States Playing Rules which are of inestimable benefit to the beginner who usually plays half a year or so in a blue haze...
...including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve departments will be cleared of every obstacle and direct responsibility to the White House emphasized. To counteract this tendency, Mr. Roosevelt proposes that Congress make the executive accountable by an independent audit of his financial transactions...
Leading all the way the Jayvee team defeated Rhode Island College of Education 39-26 last night in the Indoor Athletic Building. With a starting lineup of Dobbyn and Sullivan, forwards, MacLeod, center, and Wills and Stephenson, guards, the home team garnered a commanding lead of 28-9 at the half and then coasted home to victory. Dick Sullivan was high scorer with eight points...
...Freshman teams of the two Colleges will also play, the Harvard starting lineup giving White at center. Logg as right forward. Lutz left forward, Cordingley, right guard and Maguire left guard...
Directly opposite the front portal of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the new statue will be unveiled next week in the entrance court of Rockefeller Center's International Building. The work of 49-year-old Lee Lawrie, member of Washington's Federal Art Commission, long famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high...