Word: channelize
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Practical submarine telegraphy is the growth of less than 80 years, although numerous experiments over small distances had been made in Europe since 1795 and S. F. B. Morse himself had laid a wire from Castle Garden to Governor's Island. A cable across the English Channel was attempted by the Messrs. Brett in 1850. They organized a company and enlisted the coöperation of Cyrus Field in 1854. After repeated failures, a cable was laid from Newfoundland to Valencia Island, Ireland, by vessels proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message...
Fifty-six were lost in the English Channel, 26 in the North Sea, 16 in the Mediterranean, 16 on the East Coast of England, 12 on the Dutch coast, 3 near Heligoland, 2 in Scapa Flow, and the remainder scattered throughout the world's oceans...
...that Great Britain was fighting with its back to the wall. . . . the Secretary of War (Mr. Baker), on returning from the front told a party of 20 men at the house of Hugh Wallace . . . that it was the general opinion that Paris was about to fall and that the Channel ports would be taken. Although that was serious, he said, he thought it was not fatal, but to the rest of us men of the Administration gathered there it sounded fatal...
Georges Barbot and the famous "air flivver " in which he won 25,000 francs for crossing the English Channel arrived at Roosevelt Field, L. I., in preparation for a flight to Chicago...
Resignation. So Andrew Bonar Law did not go on a very long sea voyage. Instead, he crossed the Channel and stayed in Paris, where his health became worse?so bad, indeed, that his doctor insisted upon his returning to England. Now, after a protracted period of procrastination, he has resigned the Premiership, being physically unable to continue in that responsible position...