Word: network
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...lack of common interests which separates these visitors from their unofficial hosts. It is the absence of mutual meeting places where each can exchange views and opinions. Without instituting any network of formalisms, it might be possible to rearrange the situation so as to permit the guests to mingle with the members of the University on social terms. The advantages for both parties would certainly compensate for any labor necessary for such an innovation...
...body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard displayed a cat from which he, as a turn of surgical skill, had removed considerable of its sympathetic nervous system. This is the network of nerves which regulate the automatic functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic...
...exploits of such men as Harriman, Hill and others in spreading the network of steel which today so closely binds the various parts of the nation together are the tales of true pioneers. These men followed a dream and there are others today and have been in the intermittent time who have trudged steadily along in the same pursuit. But the romance has not been the only phase, and "le revers de la medaille" is equally enthralling. Legislation aplenty has been let loose by the advent and enormous growth of the railroads, by no means least among which stands...
This other picture represented the Associated Press-which is a non-profit-making network of news bureaus established in the offices of leading U. S. newspapers, with numerous correspondents abroad-as an organism which, originally sober grey matter, has lately exhibited iridescence, volatility and other sensational characteristics...