Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This coup was sprung while the N. Y. Central, the B. & O. and the Penn- sylvania were deadlocked over the future ownership of the Central New Jersey and the Reading. But the energetic Van Sweringen brothers kept right on acquiring roads; their system lacked entry into Pittsburgh, and rumors became active in Wall Street that the Pittsburgh & W. Virginia, the Lackawanna and other roads might soon be added to the new Nickel Plate...
Finally, to bring order out of chaos, there has been a gathering of chieftains in Washington; the leading figures are Daniel Willard, President of the B. & O.; Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania; Patrick E. Crowley, new President (TIME, Apr. 14) of the New York Central; and last but not least, C. P. and M. T. Van Sweringen. The principal reason for this gathering was to agree as to who should get what...
After going through the Museum of Comparative Zoology with Professor Agassiz Honorary 1348, the members of the party were taken to Harvard Hall, where "an excellent lunch had been spread". The meal was very informal. The Prince sat in a central position at a table placed crosswise at the west end of the hall with President Felton at his left and Mr. Josiah Quiney, an ex-president of the College, at his right...
American prejudices against the "Bally English" in conflict with English misconceptions of "boorish Americans" furnish the central Tenma. With a strange mixture of sympathetic concern and amusement the author views those absurd ideas that Americans have of England and the equally warped opinions that the English hold of America and its "natives". It is the old idea of the folly of prejudices. Perhaps this is why the author employs a conventional plot and technique and stock characters...
There is not a continent on the globe that has not its representatives at Harvard. Australia sends one, while South America has two representatives. Central America has 20 men at Harvard, Africa 3, Asia 72, and Europe 71, making a total of 179. These figures, however, are not as yet complete. Of the 34 nationalities at Harvard, half are from Europe, though only one third of the total number of men are from that continent...