Word: channelize
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...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...
...cold, she remarked as she felt the water, colder than last year. She struck out for England. When, after 14 hours and 31 minutes in the water, she had landed at Kingsdown Beach, beating by two hours the best male record for the Channel, herself the first woman in the world to swim across; when her tug, the Alsace, had taken her around to Dover and the crowd was shouting on the pier-a customs official came aboard. For an hour he kept the whole party waiting while he asked questions. What was her name? Her race...
Refreshed by this escapade, Alfonso boarded a cross-channel packet, set sail for England accompanied by his consort and their eldest son and daughter, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, 19, and the Infanta Beatriz...
...following morning. The supporters of all three of the contested measures held to their stand, defeated amendments to strike out the contested provisions, overrode a determined filibuster. The opponents of the measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost the Government from $52,000,000 to $73,000,000. The reason they favored the Missouri project was to make...
...upon continuing so, the Government by an elaborate system of coal rationing cut normal consumption 50%. The King, after planning a holiday at Aldershot and Sandringham, canceled the special train which would have conveyed him thither in order to save coal. The normal railway service was cut 40%. The channel boats coaled exclusively abroad, and large shipments of foreign coal arrived on every steamer...