Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first practical drawings for a Channel Tunnel. In 1875 tne Gunnel Tunnel Co. (still in existence) was organized. Queen Victoria spurred the idea by announcing: "All the women of England will bless the builder of the tunnel for saving them from seasickness," Preliminary borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries are still bone dry, impervious, free from fissures...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...