Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today do not know that the morning star and the evening star are the same heavenly creature and that her name is Venus, the reason may be that our calendar is based upon the career of a larger and more obvious body called the sun. An ancient Maya of Central America and southern Mexico had not this excuse for ignorance concerning the loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight sun years, that eight...
...Buddhist priest trod the deck of an ocean liner in New York Harbor. At his feet sa a throng of disciples, catching words of wisdom and blessednes as they fell. Crowding closer cam newspaper reporters, to whom tn ancient one declared that his name was Avagarika Hewarritaina Dharmapala, the central portion of which meant "wanderer," which was what he liked best to be called...
...Grand Central Palace, Manhattan...
...scheduled to open Jan. 9- the annual National Automobile Show. Entering, pressmen found the lobby of Grand Central Palace transformed into a Venetian Doge's reception parlor. Artists had been busied for weeks with the panoramas. Trees and pottery had been imported, and even special linoleum with grains in imitation of Italian woods, was sent abroad for. In a court of the arts and sciences, immense statues brooded among Etruscan groves...
...factions of railroaders, bankers and investors tersely yet passionately made their final pleas for and against the proposed billion-and -a -half consolidation of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads into a fourth great eastern system to complement the already existing New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore & Ohio lines. Stock in the five roads involved sufficient to swing the deal is already controlled by Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his brother Mantis J. Van Sweringen, the genii of the plan, together with their banking associates. It remains for the Commission to decide its public...