Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable link in the present electric power system No adequate test has yet been developed which will predict whether a cable will operate for any reasonable time...
...basis for such protest, however, is found as much in the result as in the cause itself. The present system of entrance requirements has made of the preparatory school no more than a necessary link in a systematic, and oftentimes cruelly mechanical, chain. Under the dictates of the Old and the New Plans the secondary school of today is rapidly affiliating itself with the professional tutoring bureau which retains at least the saving grace of making no pretenses or excuses for its existence. A preparatory training should undoubtedly have more to offer than an intensive competition which is limited...
...Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys a vital link between past and present...
...which it gains access to New York. An even more decisive step forward was the approval by the I. C.C. of the B. & O.'s petition to acquire the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, for which it has long been angling. This prosperous coal road is a very desirable strategic link between Buffalo and Pittsburgh, the two Great Eastern Gateways. Over it the B. & O. will reach Buffalo, the most important Eastern outlet of the Great Lakes. The road will also be a vital part of the new low-grade freight route between New York and Chicago projected...
...Colonial government of the Bahamas. Governor Charles William James Orr from his hill-cresting House at Nassau sees with no equanimity Pan American planes carrying mail, passengers and express between Nassau and Miami, and from Miami dominating the whole Caribbean. He wishes for a British air service to link the Central British possessions of the Americas...