Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon only one count, can the present test of opinion go astray, namely, inattention. The cards are not incidental but central to the establishment of the dining hall. The pledges of sufficient men, say six or seven hundred, will bring it into being, in all probability, over the summer. Failure to receive the requisite number of pledges, on the other hand, must be taken as a student negative on the plan and will prevent all further progress until another year...
...lose one single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...
...fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...official American Delegation to the Soviet Republics is at present being organized by the Student Council of New York, affiliated with the student governments of the New York City colleges. This delegation is approved by the central student body of the Soviet Party. As yet not the full quota of Harvard representatives has been selected...
...realized by anyone who has ever tried to separate the big from the little in life; how necessary is known only too well to the Senior floundering in a morass of technical histories, of political histories, of diplomatic histories, of social histories, all of which revolve around the central life and spirit of a people or of an age, and none of which ever come to grips with more than a shred of the reality of history. It is to the glory of the Beards that they have succeeded as they have...