Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be played at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: French Military March Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz On the Steppes of Central Asia Borodin "Fountains of Rome," symphonic poem Respigli Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni Dance of the Waves Catalani Overture to Silican Vespers Verdi
...Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party, his few words were treasured up as pregnant oracles...
...paints and composes, not with the aim of laying hold upon the essentially human elements, but rather with the purpose of exhibiting each one his own little individualities; in a word, expressing himself rather than the humanity in himself. And the result is a million divergences with no central standard, and ensuing cultural chaos...
...advisability of locating it on Soldiers Field, where athletes coming in from other sports might avail themselves of the pool, was considered, but was rejected on the grounds that the new building should have a more central location...
...procured a Man Friday of almost superhuman ability to help him run his Elizabethan home. His young daughter, fresh from American college arrives on the scene, and various complications, including a Shakespere discovery of international importance follow to carry the tale through to the inevitable return of the central character to his advertising firm in New York...