Word: canalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aintree, England - was a Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur in every Grand National and make it the most dangerous, most uncertain horse race in the world...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology will discuss the subject "Society Among Insects" at 7.15 o'clock. On the following week at 7.30 o'clock W. H. Weston, professor of Cryptogamic Botany will give an illustrated talk on life at the biological station on Barro-Collorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone...
...Henceforth Canal...
...owned originally by a Parisian antiquary and art critic named Eugene Piot. In 1864 Critic Piot sold it to a fellow pamphleteer, Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries to Sir Joseph. They came back with the Delia...
...ancient Manhattan department store, James A. Hearn & Son, founded in 1827, changed hands last week. Hearn's used to be on Canal Street, has been on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue since 1879. Prices low, aisles crowded, it retains the air of an old fashioned department store...