Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ellis tells deserves a novel at least. For it must be remembered that the author only writes of those failures who have at first been successes--no humble persons find a place in his volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than seventeen pages is, to say the least, impracticable. Imagine Thackery giving as little space to Becky Sharp's life...
...Machine Gun Battalion of the 27th New York Division, it served in Flanders and in France and participated in every engagement of that Division from the Ypres salient to the breaking of the Hindenburg line between Cambral and St. Quentin, and in the subsequent operations up to the Sambre Canal...
...dealt with in a manner demanding of the governor the highest qualities of judgment character and action. The foresight and courage with which he supported the experiments of the medical men for the extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D. Lord Cramer, when asked to suggest someone to succeed him as viceroy of Egypt said that the only man who could be his successor was not an Englishman but an American...