Word: channelize
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...Scot MacDonald told the House that after thorough examination by his Channel Tunnel Committee (TIME, March 24) the Cabinet has finally decided not to build one, although this project has been urged and argued in and out of season for more than 50 years. Reason: fear. The English are still afraid that a sneaking French Army might creep among them in the night. Said Le Matin of Paris, last week, in a jocular editorial: "If the British do not want us to pass under the Channel, we will fly over...
...capita the French now owe a national debt of $466. Just across the Channel every John Bull and his Jane are sunk with a debt of $830-the greatest per capita of any people on earth. Just now France is doing so well that last week she was able to pay back ahead of time $75,000,000 borrowed from Swedes. While Mr. Snowden is forced to raise British taxes, M. Reynaud was able to make last-week a slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel...
...changing current of student expression. In recognizing this condition, the Phillips Brooks House has by no means fallen before the onslaught of a new college generation; rather it has anticipated the present state and so adapted itself as to turn the changing current of undergraduate opinion into a broader channel of religious service...
From the first premonition of a college career to the many wise saws and instances that aid him across the channel from secondary school, the Freshman is the victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into...
From the depths of the English Channel last week the grey conning tower and then the deck of a British submarine rose, spume-flecked, at an historic moment. His Majesty's sub had chanced to bob up directly between the two fastest liners in the world, both German: the nine-month-old Bremen bound for Bremerhaven, and her new sister ship, the Europa, maiden-voyaging to New York...