Word: web
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dapper, debonair, lavishly educated abroad, Clarence Hungerford Mackay continued to spin the web his father had begun until it was a $120,000,000 world-wide system. Then, after presiding over Western Union's only competitor for a quarter century, he sold out in 1928 to International Telephone & Telegraph which, under the direction of the Brothers Behn, was gobbling up communication companies in all the world's corners. As I. T. & T. has since learned, the Postal System was no bargain...
From the tangled web of conflicting stories which surround the closing of the Lampoon Building Monday, there emerged yesterday a fairly clear and logical sequence of accurate facts...
...same bill with this delightful pastoral, a "Shadow of Doubt" crosses the screen. This is a murder mystery which carries Ricardo Cortez and Virginia Bruce through many a night club, until at last the web is unfangled by an astonishingly brusque and perspicacious maiden aunt. If you should have difficulty in selecting the culprit, look for the Yale man, two years...
...principles, began working on a set of wings in his spare time while traveling with an air circus. Few weeks ago he completed his flying-gear, went to Daytona Beach to await ideal weather. His apparatus was made of airplane fabric and metal tubing, weighed only eight pounds. A web-like tail fin was sewed between the legs of his flying suit. His wings, more like a bat's than a bird's, were fastened to the arms and sides of his suit...
...enrolls in one of the elementary courses, will find his scientific interest soon crushed. He will find himself entangled in a web of minute regulations; he will be mechanized or flunked. Laboratory assistants do not as a rule show students the theories and principles which unite the details of the separate experiments and weld them into a comprehensive whole. Armed with mimeographed instruction sheets, they answer all those questions that should be asked and frown upon the extraneous. Tests come regularly and are returned regularly...