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...limitless" capacity for traffic by means of a 1,000-ft. channel, 50 ft. deep at low tide, such that ships can sail directly through without waiting...
...Construction of the new strait on the site of the present canal without interrupting traffic. This he calculates could be done in about 20 years by setting 50 dredges to work widening and deepening the channel...
...Freedom from any difficulty to navigation from differences in the tidal levels of the two oceans. The maximum difference of water level would not, he declared, produce a current of more than 3.5 knots in a 1,000-ft. channel 50 ft. deep...
...year, that a position as a clerk is failure. And yet what does entering college at 10, passing the anatomy examination at the Medical School at 11, and winning a diploma at the age of 16 mean beyond a receptive mind turned prematurely into a narrow channel and trained through constant, self-centered attention? These early achievements betray few elements needed for later success, nor were they sufficiently startling to proclaim the youth a genius...
Enrique Tirabocchi, who swam the English Channel last Summer, failed in the Plate. Henry Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., took five hours longer to swim the Channel than Lillian took to swim the Plate. Yet he was strong enough to march to the nearest restaurant for ice cream and soup. Details as to what Lillian asked for after her swim was done are lacking...