Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larva has a closed alimentary canal. All the waste matter from its heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...
Young Panama's vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...
...Boost. Washington and Lee started out in 1749 as Augusta Academy, when early settlers of the region decided to plant Scottish-Presbyterian learning in the Valley of Virginia. In 1798, the year before he died, George Washington handed the school its first big boost: $50,000 worth of canal stock, that had originally been the gift to Washington of the Virginia Legislature. The school gratefully changed its name to Washington Academy, later to Washington College...
...season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost his touch on the reins...
...lost no time in donning his seven-league boots. Working hand in glove with the post office, he won contracts to fly to San Juan and the Canal Zone, and overnight was assured $2,500,000 a year in mail revenue for ten years. Pan Am began the year 1929 with no miles of routes; at year's end it had 11,000. By 1930, at the age of three, Pan Am was the world's longest airline, and still...