Word: network
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil use Chris-Craft sedans. While Chris Smith chews and whittles in the Algonac postoffice, his boats are being sold by dealers all over the U. S. and in 20 foreign countries...
...University is many things. It is a campus a local habitation and a name. It is an apostolic succession of great teachers. It is an aggregation a continuity of students perennially renewed in numbers maturing in a cocoon of lightly spun traditions. It is a network of laboratories and libraries where knowledge of the world and the individual is advanced and stored. It is a corporation which acquires and husbands a great endowment. All these things Harvard has been and more or less still is in such fashion that not only her sons but the general citizenry may think...
...Mellon's personal representative before the Senate Finance Committee during the framing of the tax reduction bill of that year. He returned to Berlin, journeyed to Poland with the Kemmerer Commission in 1926, was recalled this month from his Berlin headquarters to take charge of the vast international network that is the U. S. Customs Service...
...eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall. President Washington's watchful eye saw the President's House begun (1792), the Capitol cornerstone laid (1793). But George Washington...
...world system, telegraph wires act as collecting and distributing agencies for the long-distance leaps of cable and radio. Some such far-seeing plan may have been in the minds of Negotiators Lamont and Young, last week, when they proposed to join R.C.A. Communications to I.T.&T.'s vast network of cable, telegraph and telephone. And on the basis of such a plan, the two corporations may appeal (may indeed, have already appealed) to Washington for approval of their deal...