Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Experimental Farms, just outside Ottawa, Queen Marie paused to read with attention a sign proclaiming that within a nearby enclosure an egg-laying contest was in progress...
...There is at present no stable government in China. The area of China is a million square miles greater than that of the United States. China is larger than the United States, Mexico and Central America combined. It is larger than all Europe. More than four hundred million, or one-fourth of the people of the earth, live in China...
...volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
Married. Margaret L. Fiske, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), and cousin of Bishop Charles Fiske of Central New York, who performed the ceremony; to Martin Edwin Walker 3d; in Manhattan...
...would. The play follows the novel's torments through hours of merciless misery. That U. S. audiences, not much given to the relish of agony, now acclaim The Humble enthusiastically, is tribute to the staging of Bertram Forsythe and the acting of a remarkable cast. As the central character, Basil Sydney maintains unflinching devotion to a cruel role...