Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First instalments of Feodor Chaliapin's autobiography were syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers. He wrote that he could remember when he was five, living in East Central Russia in a hut costing a ruble and a half per month.* His father, a clerk, "was very fond of drink and on one occasion did not come home for two days. . . . After a time he became intoxicated every pay day" and beat Mrs. Chaliapin...
...Sicily and below Naples, where the power of Fascismo is more a distant threat than a present force, prices and wages scarcely wavered. In central Italy there was obedience at Rome and in Fascist centres generally, but much resistance elsewhere...
...five volumes represent seven years of labor by a "nonpartisan" board of German scholars appointed by the Weimar Constitutional Assembly (1919). The Committee concludes that, in nearly all instances, weapons discountenanced by international law were first employed by the Allies and then adopted in "rightful reprisal" by The Central Powers...
...machine shown in Manhattan was devised by J. W. Legg, inventor for Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and Dr. Max A. Goldstein, director of Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis. In principle it is like the oscillograph used in every high-school physics class for experiments on sound. Noises thrown against a diaphragm causes a light to throw a shadow against a screen. The same sound always causes the same shadow. The Legg-Goldstein machine is a highly efficient oscillograph...
...Central Park row boat...