Word: canalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher animals do and eats much as they do. He is a vertebrate with the same number of limbs as other vertebrates. Bone for bone, his skeleton is like that of the typical mammal-and even reptile-types. His nervous system is similar-centring in a nerve canal leading up the spinal column to the brain. He has hair and warm blood like other animals. He produces young in the same way. He suffers from the same poisons as do the great apes, and from diseases similar to theirs. He is even preyed upon by similar lice and fleas...
Methodists, Congregationalists, Reformeds, had been forwarded to the Union Church of the Canal Zone. This assures the erection of a new and beautiful temple of unity at Balboa. Other edifices are already located at Cristobal, Gatun, Pedro Miguel. All are self-sustaining, although the migratory character of the white population makes it necessary to raise building funds...
...Department sent a check for $350,000 to the Treasury Department-the 5% annual dividend paid to the U. S. Government by the Canal Zone Administration, which runs the Panama R. R. under the War Department's supervision. All the stock of the railroad is owned...
Days passed without word from the good ship Arc turns, bearing Scientist William Beebe and 48 companions on an exploration of the deep sea (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, 16, 30). The Arcturus had traversed the Caribbean, threaded the Panama Canal, headed down for the Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador. A week passed, ten days, eleven. On the twelfth day, the U. S. Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating...
...Jennings, a web-footed Canadian sportsman, decided that he would swim from Toronto to Manhattan by way of Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River (400 miles) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of peace between the U. S. and Canada.* He expects to make several stopovers en route...