Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide (190 ft.) to get through the Panama Canal...
...made him "a silent, slow-spoken man, his habitual expression one of quietly listening. He dressed carefully and well. He kept a notebook . . ." From his desk and his books he sallied forth regularly with the notebook to see the world-once, in 1830, taking a trip on the Erie Canal. This was during the summer of a scandalous murder trial in Salem; Cantwell construes Hawthorne's journey as a "flight"-perhaps from the ordeal of giving testimony that might have injured people he knew...
...Mounted Regiment (which has not had to fight a battle in 134 years). In 1928 he married Estelle Romaine Manville (of Johns-Manville). He was 33, she 24. They moved into Dragongarden, a villa in Stockholm's diplomatic quarter, surrounded by old oaks, vast lawns, and a canal where all the Bernadottes went skating. Together with his two sons, Folke and Bertil (two others died), the Count grew into an enthusiastic Boy Scout, was frequently seen in Scout garb at international Scout encampments...
Episcopal Archdeacon of Colombia Ancon, Canal Zone...
...country's great trading centers, Hoorn's crabbed brown houses now totter over narrow, idle streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen...