Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manila, in Honolulu, in Tientsin, in the Canal Zone, in Burlington (Vt.), in Camp Lewis (Wash.), in San Francisco, in Minneapolis, in Tidewater (Va.), in Columbus (Ga.) and Columbus (O.), in Chicago, in Manhattan, in Boston, in St. Louis, in San Antonio, in Atlanta, in Portland (Me.), there were dinners given one night last week, "annual assemblies" of the graduates of West Point...
...southerly outlets to the Great Lakes system, the present Wabash and Desplaines-Illinois valleys, both leading to the Mississippi. The latter ultimately robbed the former and a vast river, called Warren River after the engineer who traced its old scourway, carried the entire system's outlet. The Chicago canal follows that scourway, deepened but a few feet. There was, in the Warren River's day, a "Lake Chicago" spreading out over the present state of Michigan ; Huron, Erie and Ontario were a "Lake Warren" with an outlet across Michigan into "Lake Chicago...
...Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators Lenroot and Willis, to ask the President to oppose an ocean ship canal through New York to the Great Lakes (see THE CONGRESS...
...President received a delegation of those who favor an Ail-American ship canal to the Great Lakes through New York State...
...Athos," said Professor Lake, "is a most remarkable place. It is the most easterly of three peninsulas jutting out from the northeastern coast of Greece. The Persians under Xerxes dug a canal cutting off from the mainland the mountain which rises 6000 feet from the sea at the extreme tip of the peninsula. Mt. Athos itself and the region around it is taken up largely by monasteries, there being some...