Word: linked
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...Link of Legitimacy. The new U.S. feeling of closeness to Britain and Britain's Crown derived most of all from the half-conscious recognition that Britain and the U.S. were among the few nations of the contemporary world which had governments solidly and deeply established in the assent of their people. Such governments, called "legitimate" by Guglielmo Ferrero, depend neither on force nor transitory popular favor. They must show a reasonable consistency between theory and practice, between the way the government is supposed to work and the way it actually works. They must be established long enough for their...
Sandler further asked that, in order to instigate a direct link with the faculty "the Administration and the Council both seek to have Council members sit on Faculty Committees, ultimately with a vote...
Truck Traffic. The seven-mile tunnel, to be finished in three years, will give Europe its first satisfactory truck route to link the industrial complexes of Italy with France, Germany and the Low Countries. Truck traffic over the Alps now takes a road full of steep grades and blocked seven to eight months out of twelve by snow. An alternative all-year route along the Mediterranean is shunned by truckers as hilly and hairpinnish. For tourists, the new tunnel will shorten the present Paris-Rome trip by 85 miles and many low-geared climbing hours...
...representative of the Crown; since confederation in 1867, the post of Governor General has been held by 17 successive British peers. Many older Canadians felt that this was as it should be, that the exercise of the King's constitutional functions by a distinguished Briton was a strong link in the Empire...
Last week microwave communication had a big new customer. The Tennessee Valley Authority started work on a 350-mile, $350,000 microwave system to link up its new power plants in Alabama and Tennessee. When completed by a subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., TVA's new system will carry voice and teletype messages, send in meter readings and reports on power loads, and help control power distribution...