Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series indicating that for the first time in history Britain was in an active earthquake zone. Vesuvius. Home bodies whose relatives were touring Italy grew needlessly uneasy over headlines in U. S. newspapers: "Vesuvius Again in Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last...
William George Besler, Central R. R. of New Jersey; Harry E. Byram, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (now receiver); Howard Elliott, Northern Pacific; James Edward Gorman, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Howard George Hetzler, Western Indiana; N. L. Howard, C. G. W.; Charles Mack Levey, Western Pacific; Henry Miller, Terminal R. R. of St. Louis; H. C. Nutt, Monongahela; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio...
...hustling, breezy type of American go-getter will find his style rather cramped in Central and South America," adds the codifier of these fashions, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Washington...
...theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls and So Big are the most familiar echoes to her name. She trains severely for authorship; swims, dives, secludes herself in a Basque fisher...
...human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds to a companion or reader. Yet Wassermann's art is great, and, amply rewards people of patience and perception. He teaches a lofty philosophy of spiritual purification by experience. The central story here is of a sensitive German boy, pure in heart, whose relations with a matured man of his own type, his schoolmaster, are grossly misinterpreted. The schoolmaster is disgraced, broken, and Dietrich Oberlin's "second stage" follows-an emotional fixation for a girl of unearthly beauty...