Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared some six centuries ago a curious and fearsome phenomenon. Suddenly and inexplicably large crowds began to dance in the streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
Conspicuous both for its lofty blue tower and for its central location, as well as notorious for its cacophonous collection of bells, (they are played but once a month) Lowell House was one of the three new units built in 1930 to complete the present House Plan. Physically it is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture; and the quiet beauty of its two courts is made all the greater by contrast with the noise and confusion which holds forth without its walls...
...reigning spirit of Lowell House has always been individuality. Within the short space of seven years, and even though there is a Central Committee to keep the Houses uniform, the active minds of Professor Coolidge, our master, and the other leading lights of the House have daringly and successfully developed institutions and traditions which have given Lowell a unique place in the College. Even three years ago Time Magazine singled out Lowell House to stamp it "prematurely hoary...
Germany's foremost exile claimed that the Nazis have not tried to solve the problem of a clear delineation of the function of the central, state, and municipal powers...
...bases for a compromise by both sides aided in their negotiations by a third impartial country. As bait for maintenance of a moderate government and a real attempt to live peacefully the League of Nations might grant a large loan. It was bribery of this sort that set Central Europe on stable feet after the World War. Isolationist sentiment ties the hands of the United States, the logical country to offer itself as arbiter between the sides and as manager of the League loan. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936 to the Foreign Minister of the Argentine...