Word: channelize
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...game of boys playing Indians in a thicket. There is a real War going on across the Channel, but that is a soldiers' affair. In the warrens of Whitehall there is the war of the ministries and the boys who have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford...
...Muir about 50 years ago. The largest of the ice streams, the Muir Glacier, once visited annually by thousands of tourists, has retreated over eight miles since 1900 and now cannot be approached by a steamer of any size because of the large amount of ice floating in the channel...
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon...
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 and William Burgess in 1911 had demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week...
...Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer...