Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central American army, shiver and fall. One can make a tolerable score without hitting a pin. Chance is everywhere: in the lop-sided balls, in the undulating alley, and in the gutters at the side...
Professor Jackson was long active in connection with Edison interests as assistant chief engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company and later as chief engineer of the central district of the Edison General Electric Company. During this period he designed, built and operated many of the largest electric railway and lighting plants in this country. He is now advising engineer and expert for several large corporations...
Conductors of outward-bound cars reaching Harvard square from Boston, Central, or Kendall square, will issue to passengers, upon request, at the time of payment of fare, checks for admission to Harvard square station for a ride on any outward-bound car, provided that such checks shall not be issued to persons paying fare with transfer checks issued from Scollay square, or Adams, square station, or from any station of the Cambridge subway. "Outward" and "inward-bound" are here used with reference to Boston. Some convenient arrangement for the continuation of certain trips on the surface after covering part...
...Musical Clubs Concert at Central Club, Somerville...
...having all but four feet above the ground. Its walls are of gray granite and the deep pit is constructed of solid concrete. All three upper stories will be made of dull Harvard brick. The latest improvements in ventilation will be installed and it will be heated by the central plant in the Peabody Museum. With the exception of the sub-basement, the building will be divided into a large number of small rooms, arranged especially for individual research. One of these will be fitted up temporarily as a lecture room for physical chemistry, but this will be abandoned...