Word: channelize
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...been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
...Especially British, for, with the termination of the British coal strike, coal has begun once more to pass eastward across the Channel...
...made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking a means for an end, furnished him a philosophy. The utilitarian process was complete...
...group of things," he continued, "for all their inaccurate perspective and narrowness, are not only typical of youth but also serve a very definite purpose in life. They concentrate all their energies on one point. It is like bringing the waters of a wide stream together in a narrow channel where it will flow faster Vividness, emotion, intensity, these are all products of concentration on a single point. When we survey things from a distance in a more nearly proper perspective, we find it harder to be moved...