Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple and retiring soul who feels the lusts of the flesh coming over him is the central character. The title has no lack of support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like...
...labor is not organized as is British labor, but it has a powerful central organization in the American Federation of Labor. The possibility of a general strike rests on the attitude of the A. F. of L. That attitude was set forth last week by William Green, President of the Federation. Mr. Green stands in the shoes which the growing feet of the great Gompers stretched in years gone by. So largely is the history of U. S. labor the history of Samuel Gompers, that there is no question that he was completely adequate to the labor problems...
...Strikers. The sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain...
...purpose of the expedition which is leaving shortly for Africa is to study the diseases of the men, animals, and plants in the parts we explore," said Dr. R. P. Strong yesterday in an interview with the CRIMSON on the expedition to Siberia and Central Africa which he is leading. Dr. Strong, who is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, has carried on investigation of tropical discases in several parts of the world...
...sturdy Studies in the Psychology of Sex have been published in Philadelphia (F. A. Davis & Co.) for the benefit of the legal and medical professions, since 1900. They are technical books by an artist who acquired his technique because he conceived sex to be, not the sole, but the central factor of life. They are the scientific basis for his doctrine of "radiant carnality" In later work (The World of Dreams) Ellis anticipated the Freudian discovery that spiritual energy is as indestructible as material...