Word: channelize
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Crossing the Channel Professor Cooke next spoke of Hastings and the death of Harold, and showed Battle Abbey, built by William to commemorate his victory. The other points of interest in the neighborhood were briefly touched upon...
...According to International Law the United States has exclusive jurisdiction over Behring Sea. It is not contrary to custom for nations to hold unlimited sway over large bodies of water; e. g., Long Island Sound, Bay of Cheleurs, Fortune Bay, Irish Channel; Hall's International Law, p. 140; Halleck 1, 140; Phillimore 1, 216; Wheaton...
Each number contains three articles, and the subjects show the co-operation of many departments. It is the design however, of the University to differentiate special "studies," in order that each may have its own channel of communication. The character of the papers already printed is eminently scholarly, scientific rather than popular, and speaks well for the thoroughness of the university work in general...
When the Armada was first sighted from the cliffs of England it was sweeping up the channel in the form of a crescent. The English fleet now commenced a skirmishing fight which neither increased nor lessened throughout the coming week, but which in the end destroyed the Armada. During Sunday the Spaniards anxiously awaited Parma who was to bring up the main body of the soldiers. Parma. however, was penned up by the Dutch fleet and effectually kept from joining the expedition. When night came the English sent fireships among the enemies' ships. The Spaniards became panic stricken...
...case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...