Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
Hypersensitivity is now the most obvious characteristic of HSA officers, a complete reversal from the blatant reassurance shown a year ago. Two examples show this new attitude. The owners of the Lowell House newspaper stand complained last year that they lost profits because the HSA central purchasing agency didn't pay bills promptly enough to earn a special commission. As a result, the purchasing agency was abolished. Also, a Harvard Square photographer complained about a proposed HSA photo agency. The HSA dropped plans for this new agency immediately, rather than incurring possible ill-feeling with the Harvard Square Businessmen...
...maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally wheel their market carts in air-conditioned luxury past shelves labeled in English "roast chicken" (which presumably sounds more exotic than polio arrosto). Tommy-gun-toting guards accompany the cashiers to the company's central office with the day's take; the supermarkets' loss from theft is less than...
...marshal whose main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...
RAIL-FARE BOOSTS of 15% for first class and 5% for coach are planned by Pennsylvania and New York Central lines on Nov. 1, when automatic 7? hourly wage increases take effect. If ICC approves, this would be third general fare raise in less than two years...