Word: linked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher early in the Century. Packard's onetime...
...Commuters, by the decision of the Commuters' Center Committee, will in the future be admitted to the facilities of Dudley Hall. Otherwise they would have been forced to pay the regular high prices for individual meals at the Union. The action was small, but good, and forms the last link in the chain which now encompasses, circles, solves, even finishes, for ever and ever, that historical phenomenon,--the Commuters' Problem...
...first Bohème Grace Moore received 18 curtain calls. After the second, London bobbies had to link hands to make a path for her from the stage entrance. Grace Moore's third performance, again in La Boheme, was given last week by royal command. Though the King was slightly indisposed at Sandringham, good Queen Mary went to Covent Garden, sat the opera out in the Royal box, smilingly applauded during 15 curtain calls...
...reward for the return of stolen jewels than to pay the full value to their owners. It is safer and more profitable for thieves to secure that reward than to try to dispose of their loot through "fences." It is also obvious that, as connecting link between complaisant insurance company and eager thief, a detective like Scaffa is in an exceedingly tempting position. How large did Scaffa loom in the current picture...
...stormy days we link and stand...