Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from a one-armed Englishman, an even more sinister character than himself. Apparently part of their tacit understanding...
Died. Hernand Behn, 53, elder of world-webbing International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West...
...supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just out of high school...
...shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that in the field of optics the most evanescent tints can be reduced to the familiar primary colors, the recording engineers are in a sense no more awed before the mixed web of orchestral tone than before the simple sound of a bell. They merely work to make their instruments impartially sensitive to the whole audible spectrum, knowing that what they call a "straight-line frequency response" will necessarily make for faithful reproduction...
...Passed the $1,003,726,000 appropriation bill for independent offices, after increasing the Federal Trade Commission's funds to continue its "Power Trust" inquiry and listening to Nebraska's Norris lecture from a huge wall chart labeled "Spider Web of Wail Street...