Word: connective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...
...beautiful throw in on Todd's hit. In the last inning Chauncey was safe at first on an error, but neither Ellison nor Amsden, two left handed hitters who were sent to the plate by Coach Mitchell in a desperate attempt to tie the score, were able to connect safely...
...report Mr. Gifford noted that the Bell system now has 12,720,000 telephones installed. This figure mounts to 16,720,000 when counting the installations of independent companies that connect with the Bell service. Use of automatic telephones increased 50% during 1925, from 969,000 in 1924 to 1,496,000. The automatic seems the only relief for telephone congestion in the great cities. Subscribers dial their wanted numbers. Automatically connection is made, if the called number is also an automatic. Otherwise the caller dials for a "manual" operator who plugs in on her switchboard. Changing over from "manual...
Ground has been broken for the first time in the preliminary work which has commenced on the John W. Wecks Memorial Foot Bridge. This bridge which is intended eventually to connect the University with the new Business School is to begin on the Cambridge side opposite McKinlock Hall. Although the bridge is to be 25 feet wide when first constructed, admitting only of foot passage, the supports, are to be placed so that it can be increased to 40 feet and thus accommodate vehicle traffic. Work thus far, which is being done under state supervision, has consisted in making borings...
...that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would be more safe while grasping the pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great, long and short pullers-in) and connect the femur (the thigh bone, the longest in the body) to the front lower ridges of the sacrum. They adduct the thighs powerfully and are especially used in horse exercise, the saddle being grasped between the knees by their contraction. (The gracilis, the most superficial muscle of the inner aspect of the thigh...