Word: connects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
...stiff, hard fought game, and as the ball travelled up and down the floor the first year men scored regularly against Bill Gray's outfit. But in the long run the more experienced team was rolling up a bigger and bigger margin as plays would click, passes connect beautifully. It was just one part in the final drive of the best basketball team Harvard has over...
...what may be Harvey Couch's plan for a Southwestern rail empire was a new application to the Interstate Commerce Commission early this month in which the L. & A. sought permission to buy the Rock Island, Arkansas & Louisiana R. R. First proposed last summer, this acquisition would connect the L. & A. with Little Rock, Arkansas' first city...
...second lines will probably share the scoring as they have done in the past few games. George Ford, star of the Dartmouth encounter, is teaming up well with his two mates, Austie Harding and Johnny Mechem, while Roberts, with one of the best shots on the team, should connect for a couple of goals...
...Functionalism" is a name which anthropologists immediately connect with Bronisiaw Malinowski, anthropologist of the University of London, the last speaker of this symposium, whose address was on the subject of "Culture as a Determinant of Behavior." The term represents a concept of a many-sided functioning as a unit, with all its customs and traditions interrelated. Malinowski observed just such a functional society during a very close study of the Trobriand Indians of Melanesia, and by giving bird's eye views of the culture of the Masal tribes of Africa, the Chagga, also of Africa, the Esquimaux, and the Trobrianders...