Word: centralizes
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...Texans have in the past four decades endured more tornadoes and lost more lives and property to the storms than any other state. And May is the cruelest month for tornadoes. Of all the twisters recorded in the past 44 years, more than 21% hit in May. People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room in the center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens...
According to Buell, the role of TFs in teaching is "somewhat more central than what I would personally like...
Toscanini's is where Japanese ichi-buns and soft-drinks meet homemade ice cream and coffee. Based in Central Square, this franchise found its home on Mass. Ave. in March replacing Ultimate Bagel. Come expecting good ice cream to go: there is little room to sit, and when it's crowded on a weekend evening, barely enough to stand...
...When designing a central system, you effectively have two options: one big box or a bunch of little boxes," Osterberg said. "We had used the big box option, but we hit the point where one big box just could not keep...
...many of my classmates, I have been tempted to linger. Harvard is an idyllic world, blessed with stately architecture, brilliant mind, and quiet optimism. But then I think of California, and the familiar streets near my house, and the sun blinking off the ocean, and the grandeur of the Central Valley's grain fields, and everything else I love about that land out west. And I realize that what I thought was a coming home to Harvard was in fact an exploration: the kind T.S. Eliot '09 describes in his "Four Quartets" when he writes: "We shall not cease from...