Word: channelize
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...years, later, in 1359, like his own gay "yong Squier," he was a soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
...decide to put pressure on the admiralty to reduce Nelson's command and put part of the fleet into services as a merchant convoy. Realizing Nelson's need of every available ship. Blake pleads for his old comrade. Finally, in desperation, he flashes a false message across the channel from Calais reporting a decisive victory for Nelson. Feeling that the sea is again safe for shipping, the admiralty countermands its order to Nelson; luckily a decisive battle is won at Trafalgar before irreparable damage is done...
This required raising the levees an average of three feet from Cairo to the Gulf. But this was not all. The Mississippi, like most great rivers, has carved a channel sufficient to carry its ordinary waters. In flood times, if not artificially restricted, it spreads its waters over most of its alluvial valley. Levees make the floods higher by penning them in, and levees which are made of dirt cannot be built high enough to hold the whole flood in the river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when...
...Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour...
Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since...