Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke plucked a ripe orange from a nearby tree and ate it, remarking at the stinging taste experienced on biting into ripe orange peel Finally the royal party were sprayed again as they put-putted two miles out to the Renown which promptly up-anchored for the Panama Canal and Australia (TIME...
...asks why we intervene. It is because of our extraordinary size, population, and wealth in comparison with neighboring states, the strategic relation of the Caribbean lands to our own shores and the necessity of defending the Panama Canal. This paramount interest has no connection with the Monroe Doctrine. Other countries are free to invest in Central America, but we must see that the Republics do not give European powers a chance to intervene on account of misbehavior...
...President then conjured up at length the investments of U. S. citizens in Nicaragua and the right purchased by the U. S. for $3,000,- 000 to build an inter-ocean canal across Nicaragua...
...partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully luring the Associated Press into printing its celebrated "Wolf! Wolf! despatch" (TIME, Dec. 27) declaring that a Mexican "Bolshevist hegemony" is intervening in Nicaragua "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
...Comstock of Minnesota, has just regained the national coffee-drinking championship downing 85 cupfulls in seven hours and a quarter. The pride of his state, he is not the first to find the alimentary canal a passage to fame. The ability to swallow the unusual has always commanded the admiration of mankind. Probably the interest in this kind of performance arises form the complete universality of its equipment. All of us dabble in the art to some extent, and even a man who has only choked on a fishbone can appreciate the greatness of one who has swallowed a sword...