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Word: centralizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legacy of poverty and suffering left by the war is even now far from fulfilled. Especially in Central European universities, the need for books and scientific equipment is still acute. The problem of medical attention, and that of Russian refugee students, are both such as to warrant the continuation of such an endeavor as this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIASON WITH EUROPE | 2/24/1926 | See Source »

...such measures. And the Pomonians fell to reflecting that one good creation justifies another. They pictured a group of colleges, like but distinct from Pomona, growing up together as funds became available. As the picture became a fact, they planned a general library, certain special laboratories and a central administrative body to deal with matters (for example, honors examinations) of community interest and value. They pictured a growing milieu of teachers in congenial surroundings, with wieldy groups of students and a rare chance to test and compare pedagogical theories. They saw undergraduate scholarship spurred by competition among the colleges . . . athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In California | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Central Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Bank | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Chase National Bank) seemed catalytic to three other banking consolidations similarly stupendous. Talk on Wall Street was that the National City Bank (the greatest in the U. S., with total assets of $1,215,033,702) was in process of absorbing the Corn Exchange Bank; that the Central Union Trust Co., the National Park Bank and the Chemical National Bank might be driven into union by Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co. (he is reported a large stockholder in the first two); and that the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Co. and the Chatham & Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Bank | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...temples of chaste white marble impart an Attic quietude to one side of Princeton University's central campus, back of Nassau Hall. In days gone by, vast quantities of glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words, Words | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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