Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dining hall of Gore is now the Winthrop House dining room, and McKinlock's is Leverett House's dining room. Long tables ran the length of these rooms, which were served by waitresses known as the Flying Squadron. These were the first dining halls to be served by a central kitchen...
Founded in 1910, the association is a sectional civic organization "intended to create fair trade among Square merchants and to stimulate non-political civic projects." Similar groups exist in Central Square and elsewhere in Cambridge...
...Cambridge police car arrived at 8 p.m. for a 20-minute stay. It was reported that the police took the ransacked pocket-books to the Central Square station for fingerprints, planning to return later to fingerprint all Briggs Hall residents...
...Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back in Mexico City had been only a come-on to hasten the expedition. What Fray Marcos sought was the rich "harvest of souls" he expected to find in the north...
...French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists-mother & son. Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness. Bowles may have missed the center of the target with his central characters, but he has given them a supporting cast and an exciting setting that a good many more practiced novelists can honestly envy...