Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still...
...usefulness; for instance, the work in my department is saving great expense of time and labor in assisting governmental survey work. Aerial photography cuts down tremendously the time in which a given project may be accomplished. It has recently been used by the Air Corps of Engineers for a canal across the State of Florida, saving many months in making a decision as to the best practical location of the waterway. There are three departments of the government engaged i n the preparation of maps for public use: the U. S. Corps of Engineers, the U. S. Geological Survey...
...windows, beat typewriters to smithereens, poured ink over Singer ledgers, smashed office furniture and seized Singer records of tens of thousands of Japanese who are paying for Singers on the instalment plan. Tearing these records to shreds, the attackers then pulped the shreds by dumping them into a convenient canal...
...foreign countries and possessions of the United States are represented for the first time in several years. These are Alaska, Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Straits Settlements, and Yugoslavia. Canada heads the list of foreign students, as in previous years, with 51 men. China follows with 32, and Hawaii takes third with 24. England kept her position with...
...Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family died. He returned...