Word: connect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the bridge will do much to case the flow of Saturday football traffic, the main purpose of the span is to link the north and south sides of the river; to connect Boston with its western suburbs. By next year it is hoped that traffic moving down the south side of the Charles will be able to use the Charles River Embankment Parkway now under construction...
...extent that the potato bug represents a Czechoslovakian domestic problem," he wrote to the Czech Foreign Office, "it is not a matter of concern to the American Embassy, which nevertheless expresses its sympathy ... To the extent, however, that efforts have been made to connect the United States with the presence of the bug, the matter is of legitimate interest to the American Embassy, which declares that [the] allegations . . . are false and preposterous...
...purposes; it cannot well afford to jam all the frequencies all the time. Its need for air room is accentuated by the fact that Russia has few long-distance telegraph or telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...
...night wore on, rescue workers-now numbering 150-tried a new scheme: men with pneumatic jack hammers began the ear-splitting job of tearing up the garage floor. A huge bucket crane rumbled ponderously into the garage. The rescuers began digging a deep slanting ditch to connect with the well. All night, all through the early morning, as the frantic work went on, people took turns kneeling at the mouth of the well to encourage Dominick...
Many mathematicians and theoretical physicists have tried hard to connect the two theories. Electrical fields and gravitational fields exists in the same space, surrounding the same bodies; but they seem to be independent, obeying different laws. No one has been able to find a common law that governs both of them...