Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composed of Canadian lines entering the country. It implies a managerial unification of systems as well as financial consolidation. The Commission's prime principle was to maintain competition between systems rather than between individual roads. In each system were grouped many a short line, controlled tributary and leased feeder...
...They insisted that Senhor Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles, as an early (1906) builder & flyer of an airplane; popular reputation as a feeder of Paris' poor...
...Harper Junior High School Chicago, there was trouble. The schoo' had been changed from an ordinary eight-grade grammar school to a new type called "junior high" school because it excluded the lower grades. Pupil; belonging in the lower grades were told upon reporting, to go to different "feeder" (lower grade) schools in other parts of the city. They went home instead, told their parents. The parent; stormed Harper, milled about its halls demanded of Principal Harrower reason why their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time...
...virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper...
...musical belly-wash by the mighty morons of the "continuous." This scene allows the introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing act, supplying much slang and local patter. The chief feeder to Fields is Jules Jordan, in the roll of Dave Loeb, attorney whom Henkel employs in his lawsuit against Tyler for the recovery of the rights to Moonlight Mama...