Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be followed by talks on "The Rejected Candidate for Admission to College" by Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the University's Committee on Admission, and President Benjamin T. Marshall of the Connecticut College for Women. Subsequent discussion will be opened by William C. Hill '01, of the Springfield Central High School, and William M. Irvine, of Mercersburg Academy...
...applied very appropriately to much of modern art, and particularly modern verse, not only in America but perhaps even to a greater extent in Europe. There is a storm and stress in present day art called Expressionism, whose chief manifestation seems to be a centrifugal stress from a central storm,--a limitless seeking for the bizarre; an aestheticising of the ugly...
Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...
...Taplin of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain. It might be that either of these two were buying, or that the "New York Central crowd" had stepped in to prevent some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with a dud investment. At any rate Wheeling & Lake Erie stock popped up from...
Died. Professor Charles Cleveland Nutting, 68, famed zoologist, noted for his explorations in Central America for the Smithsonian Institution; at his home in Iowa City...