Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meanwhile the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, headed by intrepid Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is inching its way across the northern sands. Geologists, paleontologists, topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest...
...They are American Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.; Chase National Bank; General Motors Corp.; National City Bank; New York Central R. R.; Pennsylvania R. R.; Southern Pacific R. R.-' Standard Oil (N. J-); Union Pacific R. R.; U. S. Steel...
Four years ago the brothers had acquired enough grip on the Nickel Plate, the Erie, the Pere Marquette, the Hocking Valley and the Chesapeake & Ohio to ordain a great railroad system (the Nickel Plate) like the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio-if the I. C. C. would not disapprove. Two years ago the I. C. C. did disapprove, chiefly because the Nickel Plate was to be the holding company...
...suggestion is good, however, in its central idea, and the Glee Club can assure Harvard of a reasonable increase in the number of Yard Concerts next year. The Glee Club...
...than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...