Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recesses of the mines, great brown rats, black with coal-dust, scampered. Up long, inclined shafts they crawled, their beady eyes blinking in the light. Not long before, the miners, their faces smudged a ghastly grey, had straggled wearily up the shafts. The soft coal strike began in the central competitive area, including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and in the adjoining states of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma...
...American professor or some other person qualified for leadership are to tour Russia this summer under the auspices of the National Student Federation of America in cooperation with the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the U. S. S. R. and the All Russian Central Students Bureau...
...Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
...late disarmament proposals. In his article, "La Canal du Nicaragua ot La Strategie Americaine" in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", March 15, he traces point by point the true basis for the administration's disarmament proposals. They were not put forth, it appears, to throw the public scent off Central America nor in a moment of misdirected pacifist feeling...
...picture which has been given the central place in the Zuloaga exhibition is a view of the ancient walled city of Segovia. There is also a painting of the Cathedral at Bengos. These two pictures will be of interest to the connoisseur who knows Zuloaga only from his portraits, gypsies, and veiled senoritas...