Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed over Puerto Rico. One plane crashed mysteriously into the sea off St. Kitts (British...
Arising pale but well from his bed of flu, Franklin Roosevelt last week headed south for his first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...
...Messinger of Houghton, Mich, told members of the Chicago Dental Society that he had streamlined the ancient practice of tooth replacement and that now it did work. First he extracts an abscessed tooth, and removes the jaw abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger, the frame can be removed...
...Commissioner, who probably thinks Loretta Young is responsible for the Suez Canal, should not despair so soon. There is a great deal the police can do besides picking on children half their size, here or in Hollywood. And if their powers of observation are too dull to see what is to be done, maybe they should go to a few "Dead End" movies themselves...
...tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...