Word: networks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice from Rome that Señor Villigas, the Chilean Ambassador, had signed with Signor Mussolini a ten-year treaty of arbitration and amity. Significantly, this is the first treaty of this kind to be signed between Italy and an American nation,† though Signor Mussolini has woven a network of eleven sinister pacts linking Italy with England, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Yemen, Rumania and Albania...
...true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate can give, in the network of Mack trucks, taxi cabs in a hurry, thundering street-cars, and messenger boys on bicycles, as pretty an example of broken field running as anyone could wish...
...simple reason that the mad dog's saliva is wiped off his teeth as they bite; through the clothing. The virus entering the flesh works its way to a nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating. And as the viri develop they travel up the network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies is more active in cold weather than in warm. There are more dogs actually mad in December than in July, contrary to the vulgar belief...
...trees you find branches protruding laterally into the path. Always there is "small stuff" which has fallen across the path, which must be thrown out. Finally, as you approach timber line, you encounter scrub the stunted tough little trees which can grow only laterally and to form an interlacing network worst of all to craw! or cut through...
...passengers. Great Britain covered 855,000 miles, carrying 14,675 passengers. Again geographical differences accounted for the mileage discrepancies, at least in Britain's case, but the enormous lead of Germany over the others in respect to passengers was most striking, reflecting as it did a highly developed network of air transport at the public disposal. Features of the European year were: the success of Belgium's route to the Kongo, cutting the time from Brussels to three days from six weeks, the 70% increase of Austria's air mileage in 1925 over...