Word: conduite
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...better than a three-inch. With his last ?600 he bought a down-&-out practice in London, found after months of struggle that he had a charming bedside manner, settled down to make a fat living in the swank West End by flattery, worthless capsules, clothes made in Conduit Street...
This excellent conduit consists essentially of two copper tubes with copper wires running through the centre of each, the whole sheathed in lead. The current travels on the inside wall of the tubes, the outside skin of the wires. Whereas ordinary telephone trunk lines have booster stations at least every 50 miles, serviced by human attendants, the coaxial cable has automatic booster stations every ten miles, accessible through manholes if repairs are needed...
...remedy is Dr. McClintock's "limited way," a road following hydraulic principles by "delivering traffic as in a sealed conduit past all conflicting eddies." It has four elements: 1) A dividing strip down the road's centre ; 2) over and underpasses with cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley...
...Georgetown, and you are astounded at the change in appearance. You note handsome old houses, through which you can walk on the payment of a small sum. You note the narrow streets, the slower pace, the rusty iron gates, the old warehouses on the river-front. You journey out Conduit Road along the old canal, and you are haunted with the scenes of your history books. If you're an extrovert you may think of what the Industrial Revolution really meant...
...between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers through the local train safely to the station platform. Afterwards President Hedley explained: "My actions were unnecessary. My men are well-trained and know their business." A pneumatic driller had pierced an I. R. T. power conduit near City Hall, causing short circuits, fire, and a four-hour paralysis of one-half of Mr. Hedley's subway system. Two thousand passengers were led choking and gasping from dark stalled trains below ground. Smoke and bursts of flame shot up through exits and ventilators. In the excitement...