Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nationally mild spring evenings were made longer as many millions of citizens throughout the U. S. last week set their watches ahead, lost one hour of sleep with the advent of Daylight Saving Time. Principal nonconformist was John D. Rockefeller Jr., who, like the New York Central, does not believe in D. S. T. Last week Mr. Rockefeller's secretaries, as they must each spring, began carrying two watches to keep in time with their boss and with the world...
...Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese they will have a stranglehold on North Central China, gravely menacing Hankow...
Eighteen Radcliffe and Harvard students in Professor Sachs seminar course on "Museum Work and Museum Problems" have arranged their annual exhibition which is now on view in the Fogg Museum. Starting from a central point, the significance of the horse in art, they have assembled a wide variety of works which covers almost the whole history...
...Unless the general situation in Central Europe changes basically in the near future, the demands of the German minority in Czechoslovakia will become more pressing--pressing to the point where they cannot be satisfied by Czechoslovakia unless she sacrifices her sovereignty," declared Fritz Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, in an interview yesterday...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...