Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard architectural policy is dismaying to many, but especially to those long associated with the Central Cambridge Fire House, lying between Memorial Hall and the Yard. This fire house was built in 1934 to match the brick ivy-covered buildings of Harvard. The Department took pride in having the most collegiate-looking fire house in the country. This effort and expense proved to be in vain, however, when in 1951 the University erected glassy, cinder-blocked Burr Hall across the street...
...recent announcement that a conference on political geography would serve as a major highlight in the 1957 Summer School Session indicates once again that the study of geography is of central concern to a liberal education in helping to understand mans relationship to the world community...
Like a cluster of overripe bananas, the Republic of Indonesia was slowly disintegrating. For more than two months the satraps of oil-and rubber-rich Central and South Sumatra to the west had been defying the authority of the central government in Djakarta. Last week four provinces of East Indonesia followed the Sumatrans into revolt...
Said Dr. Masao Tsuzuki, director of Tokyo's Red Cross Central Hospital: "Speaking as a scientist, I can make no evaluation of the strontium 90 danger. Too much work is still to be done. We do not know how much gets down to earth or how long that takes. We do not know how much then enters the human body, or at what rate, or what the mechanism of transfer from food to animals and humans is. I do not believe that strontium 90 will be permanently harmful at its present level, but if experimental explosions continue...
...Industry. Such intensified efforts have created an atmosphere in which citizens and businessmen's groups across Arkansas are putting their shoulders to the task of attracting new industry. The result has had a startling impact on the state's economy. The sleepy little town of Searcy in central Arkansas, which once lived off strawberries and cotton, has already been transformed by the prospect of four new plants worth nearly $5,000,000 (two already built), and its population has doubled to 7,000. In 1956 alone, 12,521 new jobs were created in Arkansas, 194 industries either brought...