Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen's job and rushed back to his First Army on the northern Kwangtung...
Construction of the last link of the iron grill fence around the Yard will be completed shortly before the Tercentenary celebration in September, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University announced yesterday...
...have been England, France, Germany, and the United States, but the former two have been forced into the background because of technical difficulties. On May 6 the new German dirigible, Von Hindenburg, will inaugurate a regular North Atlantic service between Frankfort and Lakehurst. No one can deny that this link in the chain of transportation around the world is a vastly more important one than the recently initiated transpacific airline of Pan American Airways. In August the German Lufthansa expects to make its first trial flights across the North Atlantic by airplane for the carrying of mail. Already German airplanes...
Which the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Public Affairs pitches its tent on the Nassau campus May eighth and ninth, another link will be forged in the chain of natural interests and friendship that bind together the traditional "ivy colleges". In times of economic and social duress, with politicians and patriots scornfully hooting at the intellectual leadership of educational institutions throughout the country, the great universities are called upon more and more to take an active hand in the conduct of national affairs. By enthusiastically sponsoring the forthcoming colloquium on "Government and Economic Stability", the college newspapers wish to bear...
Also nearing completion is San Francisco's other great span, the Golden Gate Bridge which will link San Francisco to the north, cross the famed harbor entrance in one 6,450-ft. leap. Hung on two 746-ft. towers, 4.200 ft. apart, it will be the largest suspension bridge in the world when opened about March 1937, will have but a six-lane automobile deck with two pedestrian walks. Its cost, financed by local bond issues...