Word: centredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With such sulphurous words safely expanding into ever thinner air, interest centred again directly upon M. Loucheur. When that notable millionaire-financial expert accepted the post of Finance Minister he declared ruefully. "I shall soon be the most unpopular man in France." His prophecy has proved true.
Owen Davis is the author and it is not one of his best plays. He tells the story of a wilful and penetrating widow in love with a handsome and promiscuous doctor. Her efforts through the evening are centred on breaking his engagements to two other women and securing him...
Confused despatches from China last week centred about the startling report that the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang had suddenly been confronted with a most serious mutiny in his ranks, which was supposed to have reduced the forces still loyal to him from 150,000 to less than a third...
The summer season is now at hand when production and trade slacken, and when the farmer begins to see where he will probably come out with his autumn harvests. During the past week, attention has thus naturally centred on crops. In general, the outlook is unusually good.
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School was one of a great army of commencement orators that went into action last week. Of all the direct hits made, none was more squarely centred than his. At the University of Indiana, he drew an analogy between the great religious foundations...