Word: network
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London subway system with the exception of the Waterloo and City Tube belongs to the London Traffic Combine The lines, eight in number, form a network of underground communications encircling and radiating from, the centre of London The ticket system is used, payment being made according to class and distance desired to travel. Smoking is permitted in smoking compartments on all lines...
...Said Eduard after the conclave: "Our country is rich and prosperous and we, therefore, have everything to lose and nothing to gain by any change. The object of my policy, therefore, has been to consolidate our present position by working hard to create a network of treaties around Czecho-Slovakia to guarantee her against any setting aside of the existing peace treaties which lay down her independence and status...
...indeed been the precursor of many mighty dirigibles. Per se its utility is small. Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful as observation posts for Army and Navy operations alike, and spherical balloons may serve to form a barrage by a network of suspension wires to intercept attacking planes. But on the whole it may 'be said that the spherical balloon remains today what it has always been-an instrument of a most delightful and thrilling sport, with devotees as numerous as ever. The great balloon event of the year...
...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...
...International book Review, has put Canada's ease. Canada is, not a land of eternal snows inhabited solely by vicious French Canadians, officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted always in summer costume, and decrepit log cabins, Transportation, He asserts, is provided for a large number of automobiles and a network of very fair railroads. Eskinio dog teams, while still employed in the outlying, districts, are no longer the only means of communication between Toronto and Montreal. And it does not snow all year round...