Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would become a federal district. Many Ottawans, who think their annual grant of $100,000 from the Federal Government is much too small, hope so too. The city owes its existence to the Duke of Wellington, who in 1826 sent Royal Engineer Colonel John By to build the Rideau Canal through to Lake Ontario, lest Americans close the St. Lawrence. Queen Victoria chose the resulting settlement as Canada's capital, after rioting Tories had burned the Parliament Buildings in nearby Montreal...
...Second possibility: let the country have whatever government it has or seems to want, but weaken the country strategically and economically to the point where it could not possibly harm Russia. This the Russians did to Finland in March 1940, when the taking of Viipuri, Hango and the Saimaa Canal placed Finland in a dependent position. But the 1941 world situation interrupted Russian plans and Finland became just that place d'armes which Russia did not desire...
...course, even before Pearl Harbor TIME started the world's first plane-delivered magazine (TIME Air Express for Latin America), thereby bringing our troops in the Canal Zone and all over the Caribbean many news-days closer to home. TIME was also the first American magazine to publish in Mexico City (to get the news faster to Mexico and Central America), in Bogotá (to get the news faster to Brazil and Uruguay), and in Buenos Aires (to get the news faster to the Argentine). And a few months ago TIME, with its Scandinavian Edition printed in Stockholm, became...
...began to get interested when Dr. Hisaw and fellow researchers found the relaxing substance in the blood of pregnant guinea pigs, rabbits, sows, dogs, cats, mares, women. In non-burrowing animals, relaxin dissolved no bone (as in the pocket gopher) but relaxed the pelvic ligaments and widened the pelvic canal, thus making birth easier. Hisaw found that even virgin female animals were relaxed by relaxin...
...Argentine Way. The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina. This prospect was further indicated last week by another Argentinian, Ramón Lavalle, a liberal Argentine journalist and ex-diplomat (who has anglicized his name to rhyme with "canal"). Lavalle wrote in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly...