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Word: closeknit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Beaverishness on a gigantic scale was manifest last week when President Hoover, energetic engineer, unfolded at Cincinnati his administration's plan for developing U. S. inland waterways into one vast closeknit system of cheap transportation. The same instinct which sets him to building toy dams and clearing out rock-choked channels in tiny mountain streams moved him to advocate a river improvement policy which will cost approximately a billion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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