Assertion: railroad | /r/CapableOf | become integral
Facets:
value: to modern life
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Railroads had become integral to modern life (“the people who came to see the ‘railway terror’, in 1868,” he points out, “would in many instances have come by train”) but still seemed dangerous and frightening – the UK had experienced one of the worst train wrecks of the century, the Abergele disaster, in August of that year.