Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight reportedly broke out in Jim Cronin's Restaurant sometime after midnight, and the episode came to a close around 12:30 a.m. on Mt. Auburn Street, when Officers T. Eagan and J. McCarthy heaved the apprehended student into a patrol wagon. He was booked at Central Square Station on charges of drunkenness and disturbing the peace...
...spending $500 million on expansion, part of it to transmit power from the Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
...throughout the country. Just how well it did its job was shown by the geographical breakdown on its business. The Eastern states (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England) contributed 22.7% of the total security and commodity business; the Southeastern states, 22.1%; the Middle West, 20.5%; the South Central, 17%, and the Western states...
Koestler has had the project in mind for 20 years. For the last five, he has been reading himself up to date, and his new book's fat bibliography ranges from Archetypal Patterns in Poetry (by Maud Bodkin) to The Hypothalamus and Central Levels of Autonomic Function (by the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases). Unfortunately, Insight and Outlook is likely to be gobbledygook to the average reader and without much meat even for the most dogged philosopher...
...apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average: a comfortable home, an interest on my part in the [family's] factory, good food, bed at eleven, central heating"-just the things the author of The Metamorphosis could not give a woman...