Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rushing down and against her went the mistral, the draft which comes from France's coolish central plateau and ends over the warmish Mediterranean. The Graf Zeppelin bucked the mistral. The wind tossed and whirled the ship. A fourth engine went dead. Only one remained to drive her and that was not enough. Commander Eckener headed her south and floated with the wind...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
...attempt to bolster up the bating strength of his team Coach Michell has stationed E. R. Todd '29 the central garden in place of B. Bassett '31 who is in the throes of batting slump...
...living quarters of the house are several feet above the ground giving it, the appearance of a bushy tree. The structure is hexagonal in shape, suspended from a central tower by cables. The inventor uses for the main theory of his work the principle that triangles and hexagons are the usual forms of natural objects, and, consequently, the most stable. He pointed out that the force of gravity tends to destroy a square and strengthen a triangle or hexagon...
...necessary to the completed building would have been used, only 20,000 tons of steel construction being necessary below the second story level. The second story is composed largely of steel, the trusses being the foundation of support for the upper reaches of the building as well as a central factor in tieing up the construction previous to this point...