Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many of the carvings were wrecked, there remained enough to show that they belonged to the same period as the great caves at Lung Men and Tatung Fu. The cave was important for two reasons; first, because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central core pillar, and the Jataka tales sculptured on the walls, features unique, it is believed, in the sculpture of the period; and secondly, because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
...fact that dog had more methods of approaching a moving point in space than any person I have ever known in Emerson. He did it with the wariness of a Central Square duenna and the nonchalance of two Central Square duennas. I sat for hours and watched him. One does things like that on spring vacations. And then there is now the subtle excuse of being a behaviorist. All of which I must admit I am not, believing sincerely that most behaviorism is at best perfunctory...
...occasion was the centennial celebration of the New York Central. In 1826 the New York legislature chartered the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad† to operate between the two upstate cities. In 1831 service began with the first run of the DeWitt Clinton, the tiny locomotive usually exhibited in the Grand Central Terminal. This day last week it was permitted to labor over its old run to solemnize the celebration. In .further rite a bronze tablet was unveiled in both the original terminal cities. The same evening the railway dignitaries and their guests were back in Manhattan dining...
...nearly 60 years with the New York Central and its predecessors, 13 as president, 27, as chairman...
...York Central lines, incorporated in 1914, grew from accretions to this first New York steam road and from later mergers and consolidations...