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Word: centralize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method of operation and the edible products of the Central Kitchen have been a perennial subject of undergraduate protest. Now that board rates are scheduled to rise again next year, a brief look at the assumptions underlying Dining Hall economics is definitely in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breakfast in Bed | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...face, the existing board schedule presupposes that every undergraduate attends every meal. This fiction is far from the case, as the politburo of the Central Kitchen openly admits in its standing contention that savings on missed breakfasts permit better main meals. Yet one clear objection can be raised against this compulsory twenty-one meal system: that it is unfair to make students pay for meals they do not attend. Next year's rise in board rates makes this traditional argument even more justifiable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breakfast in Bed | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...later regret, destroys one or more Grus americana. The most immediate problem facing the whooping crane is unfolding at the Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans, where Josephine, a splendid female whooper, has just laid two eggs (referred to as a "clutch"). Since breeding wild in west-central Canada is a slow and dubious process at best, zoo breeding is a major hope of whooping crane lovers. It has been discovered that if the clutch is stolen, the female crane will lay another, and repeat the process again after a second theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whoooops | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

...investigators' central conclusion is that the United States will never be able to stand up in the race with the Soviet Union if it can't get better men in the government for longer periods...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Alumni Study Proposes Business-Gov't. Contact | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Last week railroadmen spread the story that two Pullman cars on the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited had been derailed near Syracuse in April. Point: no passenger was hurt because there was not a single one in either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Perils of the Railroads | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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