Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious were those purgings, decided a board of Army officers who court-martialed Lieut. Colonel Duckwall and ordered his promotion to a colonelcy, when due, delayed a full year...
...years later, and Colonel Hammond became Madison Square Garden's general manager. Like princes squabbling over an emperor's spoils, the heirs of Rickard soon fell out. Sturdy, speed-loving Richard F. Hoyt, through Hayden, Stone & Co's stockholdings, controlled the Garden. He chose a canal & railroad engineer and heavy Garden stockholder, William F. Carey, to be president of the Garden. But it soon became evident that the sports empire of Rickard was a hollow thing without Rickard to run it. Last year Carey, who had ousted Hammond as general manager, was succeeded by Colonel John Reed...
Lead ship was the light cruiser Milwaukee. Up she went 85 ft. through Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks to Gatun Lake. Forty-eight hours later the training-ship Melville ended the procession of the in ships. Canal capacity had been estimated at 48 ships in 24 hr. Admiral Sellers and Governor Schley congratulated all hands on raising the record to 55 ships...
While 15,000 bluejackets swarmed ashore at Colon to celebrate their delayed leave, the Tokyo Press, aware that all U. S. naval strategy centres around Panama Canal operations, sneered at "the American Fleet's failure," declared that "passage through the canal in 24 hr. has been proved impossible...
...Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week the pain got so bad that she went to Dr. Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician, of White Plains Medical Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected-the skeleton of a cricket...