Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he worked and of which Michael was a member. He did it for the support of Victorine, who was suffering from pneumonia. Deprived of his job, Tony became a capitalist, investing all he had in rubber balloons, which he hawked about the streets. He and Victorine looked upon Central Australia as the only place where happiness might await them. On her recovery, the young wife, abetted by Michael Mont, went surreptitiously to work as an artist's model-not infrequently in the "altogether"-to earn passage money. Accidentally, old Bicket came upon her picture in an exhibition...
...Hall-King believes that the only solution lies in decentralization, in relaxing the grip of the central government over the industrial and political life of the people; but the steps for accomplishing this undoubted good are too vague and too difficult. The only other outcome seems to be that western materialism, introduced by force, will be poisoned in root and branch by the concomitant virus of class-conscious hatreds...
...According to reports I received at first hand in Budapest last summer, the Countess is regarded as the most valuable ally the Bolsheviki have in Central Europe, because of her charming personality, her beauty and her ability as an actress to present in varying tones her cause and to make appeal to fashionable audiences. Her husband's record is history and there is no denial that she has been his constant ally. I was further informed that when Bela Kun was taken from jail it was the Countess who was his escort on that occasion. We have deported the Emma...
...cablegram, received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, announces the discovery of a moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes...
Several attractive smaller roads, and several not so attractive, are the lure: these include the Norfolk & Western, Central New Jersey, Reading, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Wabash and others. The railroad leaders wish to merge until only four main systems finally remain in this northeastern territory. Naturally, each big road wants to acquire the attractive small roads, and leave the poor small roads for some one else. No one apparently wants the New Haven, so that New England will be mostly left out of the effects of the merger movement. On the other hand, some of the little roads do not apparently want...