Word: channelize
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Splendrous "Sun King" Louis XIV created the de la Trémoïlles hereditary princes and of these Prince Louis was the last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes...
...Graaff knew, moreover, that a vitally important part of his huge contraption, as a scientific instrument, was a 40-ft.-long vacuum tube made of laminated paper. Still unfinished and untested last week, this tube is to bridge the gap between the balls, serve as a channel for the 10,000,000 volts which Dr. Van de Graaff expects to produce. At one end of the tube swarms of protons will be released. The high voltage will whip these particles down the tube against a target at the other end. Dr. Van de Graaff hopes that these bullets will disrupt...
...Bird of Dawning, hove to and deserted. The skipper had gone crazy, faked a hopeless leak and frightened his crew into the boats. Short-handed as they were, the boat's crew of the Blackganntlet turned to and sailed her home, not knowing till they reached mid-Channel whether they were still in the race or not. When the Channel fog lifted under a driving breeze they found they still had a chance. They cracked home lucky winners, luckier still to be alive...
...announced in October, is to straighten the present sharp curve of the river opposite Soldiers Field and to put a bridge across the new bed. This bridge will be built on the dry land on the Boston side of the projection formed by the curve and the channel dug under it after the bridge is completed...
...MacDonald must feel confident that this time he and Mr. Roosevelt know each other's minds without possibility of misunderstanding. Last week Ambassador Davis was said to have brought Scot MacDonald a personal letter written in longhand by the President. After chatting at Downing Street, he crossed the Channel to Paris, dropped in on Premier Edouard Daladier who also blames the President for the wreck of the London Conference, and sought to soothe the Frenchman with a cheery verbal message from Mr. Roosevelt. These chores done, Mr. Davis proceeded to sit in at Paris on disarmament parleys with British...