Word: networks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground, hardened by years of baking, at first shed the water in sheets. Then hardy seeds sprouted forth; and, where there had been deserts, lush meadows appeared. The emaciated cattle of Santa Elena gorged and fattened. At Talaro, an inland oil settlement which had lain lifeness in January, a network of streams covered the waste land in March, filling the desert and the very village streets with myriad spawn and minnows...
...Papers of The New York World type): "Chapman had a long criminal record, was dangerously adroit at fleeing justice. We were out to get him. Publicity for the countrywide network of detection that finally caught him at Muncie, Ind., would scare other super-crooks, of which the underworld is full. Hammer, hammer, hammer on that! Besides, our readers like a sensational murder trial now and then, reported ably and with just a trifle less color than the yellow press lays on. We serve the public what it wants in a way we think we can prove is good...
Private school graduates are able to control the managership and other competitions at Harvard because of the existence of a vast network of convention. The conventional meshes are so arranged that private school graduates can get through them while the public school graduates are excluded. This state of affairs is made possible because of the fact that certain private schools are sending men to Harvard every year in groups, while the public school men often come singly from schools scattered all over the country. At present, the private school men are united and elect the class officers, while the public...
With the passing of the "Cotton Belt" into the control of the Rock Island Road ends the battle of the old giants. The St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, known as the "Cotton Belt", was the last trace of the great steel network, which Jay Gould conceived and created, still to remain in the hands of his family. Now Edwin Gould without fuss or ceremony relinquishes...
...major league record) are chiefly asscribable to the shrewdness of John McGraw, their square-jawed manager, and to heavy financial backing. Not only has McGraw the acumen for constructing and lubricating a baseball machine but he has also been supplied with dollars sufficient to maintain a far-flung network of "scouts" on the lookout for fresh material; sufficient to purchase such material at any price...