Word: centredness
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Interest centred on the fortune that could have been made, last week, by selling Loewenstein shares short; and on the hope that Ogre Loewenstein had engineered a hoax, a coup, had sold himself short and vanished with a profit of millions.
The nucleus of the bill was still the Army engineers' plan for bigger and better levees along the main stream of the Mississippi from Cairo, 111., down, and spillways at the foot of the river. The Army figure for this work was $295,000,000. The Senate's...
The chief sensation of the polling centred around War Minister Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster...
Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She, a toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around...
Father. "The meaning of a loss from a family of a youth in the prime of his life, with his high hopes and those of his parents centred upon his future cannot be understood except by those who have experienced it. When that loss comes the sun is darkened, and...