Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this incomparable domestic was made the central figure of the most recent novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, whose inspirational works of fiction have made him one of the best-selling novelists in the past six years. Born 59 years ago in Columbia City, Ind., Dr. Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality...
Younger than these, but equally famous, are tentative sketches of University Hall prepared in 1815 by Charles Bulfinch, the famous New England architect, and firmly rejected by the college. Bulfinch originally desired that the central building be topped with a massive gold dome; when this was turned down he was willing to compromise on a large cupola. The building, as finally constructed, had a plain roof, and is still in use today for the university offices...
Willy Harinet, Lecturer at Frankfort University, Germany, whose field is the history of natural sciences, especially astronomy among the peoples of the Orient, the Near East, and Central America, will again be lecturer on the History of Science. Dr. Harinet is included in the faculty members giving courses in the new doctorate field "History of Science and Learning Infliated last year by President James B. Conant...
...Garden City Golf Club, where the National Amateur Golf Championship was played last week, is an extraordinary institution. No women have ever been allowed in its low oak-paneled clubhouse. The course, sprawling over four sandy miles of Long Island's central plain, is dotted with ghoulish hazards placed there by the late Walter J. Travis, the club's most famed member and the best golfer in the U. S. at the turn of the Century. Most famed hazard designed by Golfer Travis is a deep pit. the size of a giant's grave, beside the 18th...
...HELLO!" screamed General Johnson to Central. "Hello! Get me New York City-Murray Hill...