Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door. Many times had the Baron Sosnowski been suspected of espionage. No charge ever stuck. He blamed his luck on a curious signet ring that he always wore. Several weeks before this last party he lost his ring pulling the Baroness von Berg's puppy from a canal...
...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
...change in appearance. You note handsome old houses, through which you can walk on the payment of a small sum. You note the narrow streets, the slower pace, the rusty iron gates, the old warehouses on the river-front. You journey out Conduit Road along the old canal, and you are haunted with the scenes of your history books. If you're an extrovert you may think of what the Industrial Revolution really meant...
Today Major Covell is stationed in the Canal Zone but his plan has suddenly become a Wall Street byword. Having announced his admiration for the Washington Plan, Mr. Carlisle last week mailed an open letter to Mayor LaGuardia offering to arbitrate the disputed New York City power contracts as a necessary preliminary to a meeting of minds on rates, valuations and required legislation...
Travels & Talks. The Man of the Year went yachting off Florida; attended the Harvard-Yale crew races at New London; cruised for a month aboard the U. S. S. Houston from Annapolis to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over...