Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum was increased by important collections from China, Malaysia, India, Australia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The additions of 21,000 specimens brought the Herbarium total to 430,000 mounted sheets...
...President, 47 Governors, the Governor General of Canada and the Presidents of all Central American Republics, Governor Philip Fox La Follette mailed a valentine consisting of a heart-shaped Wisconsin cheese...
...whose owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired bitch named Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston...
...seemed that in trying to uphold its leg of the three-way gold accord with Britain and France, the U. S. was making the game of international finance entirely too complicated. One banker, related the New York Times, told a story about the governor of a small European central bank "who had come to the World Bank in despair, declaring the American instructions regarding gold completely bewildered him and asking help, only to be informed that these regulations left the World Bank experts...
...Italian, Luigi Beccali, Olympic 1,500-metre champion in 1932, chose not to run, wanting more time to train. The Hungarian, Miklos Szabo, who recently broke the world record for 2,000 metres, canceled his entry after he caught cold walking in Central Park. The identical twins, Blaine & Wayne Rideout, students from North Texas State Teachers College, did run, but fared badly...