Word: central
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...work in western Canada, China and Japan. He was in the mountains near Tokyo when the earthquake of 1923 rocked the island, and he plunged into the work of relief. After eight years he was brought back home, and later made financial secretary of the army's U.S. Central Territory...
...these glowing terms, the Central Committee of Bulgaria's Communist Party saluted its leader on his soth birthday, two years ago. Last week Comrade Rostov, for a decade Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, was on trial for his life...
...than 100 Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, South and Central America. And five other lawmakers were going to Mexico-to study foot & mouth disease...
After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart...