Word: central
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viema has little beauty today, though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their...
...Central issue in the schism was whether the Advocate was too "arty," as the three editors--A. Chase Shafer '51, William E. Wiggin '50, and Norris W. Darrell '51--who resigned Thursday claimed...
...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
...building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on Park Ave., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grande dame of Manhattan's social world, will, in effect, be one of Connie Hilton's new landlords...
...some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central authority, the Magister Ludi (master of the Game), who was regarded by the members as almost...