Word: network
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton Simon expounded in great detail a method of identification which no criminal could circumvent without blinding himself. Dr. Simon would use the pattern of blood vessels in the circular backdrop of the eye. Almost infinitely various is this network in different people, and the chance that two persons might have the same pattern is as fantastically improbable as identical fingerprints. Age or disease may change the character of the eye veins and arteries, but not their position...
...question remains unsolved. Active measures of repair, however, are being employed. The automatic force pump from inside no longer throws out its contents into Cambridge at large but a noisy machine job balls unceasingly in an attempt to link the sewage system of Eliot House with the main network. As for the pipes, they will soon wear protective sleeves to guard against either sinking or corrosion...
President Conant presided over the ceremonies, while the Glee Club rendered four selections. Between eight and nine o'clock the program was carried to the nation over NBC's "Red" network...
President Conant will preside and the ceremonies will be broadcast over the "Red" network of the National Broadcasting Company from 8 to 9 o'clock...
...question of life on Mars has been open ever since the time that the Italian astronomer, Schiaparelil, first observed a network of very fine lines on the planet's surface. These he called 'canale' in the report of his discovery to the astronomical world. The word which means "channel" was mistranslated as "canal" in both the English and French versions of his report...