Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue, with a fine view of Central Park across the street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...
Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour...
...recognition seemed likely to solve few of the Venezuelan junta's problems. Just a week after the junta used tear gas to break up a student demonstration at Caracas' Central University, it countered a sudden oil workers' strike in the state of Zulia by jailing union leaders and threatening strikers with loss of social-security benefits. Foreign observers wondered if the walkout was a dress rehearsal for more serious trouble...
Hopper, in the concluding, speech of the day, attempted to show that the transfer of power, from central Europe to the perifery states, and form the middle class to the industrial workers, can best be met by a new third power center around the North Sea and by achieving a halfway point between free enterprise and collectivism...
...girls are adequately supplied, because our girlish system allows a few unscrupulous, students to foul up this lifeline of education. The honor system as applied to the library, invariably breaks down when the pressure is on. Radcliffe would have fewer library complaints if it introduced a rational system to central its books instead of an emotional one. Nancy Rabi, Radcliffe...