Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fishers can do this by renting a "bob house" and waiting for bites in the relative comfort of a coal stove. Colonies of these shelters are now flourishing on some of the larger lakes, such as Squam in New Hampshire, Champlain in Vermont, and Sebago in Maine...
...Champlain College, at the Army's Plattsburg barracks; Sampson College, at the Navy's Sampson training station; Mohawk College, at Utica's Rhoads (Army) hospital...
Some millions of them were headed for Canada-green, fresh, cool and twice as big as all outdoors. By road, rail and rattletrap they went. In the hot August sun their cars headed north around Lake Champlain and Memphremagog, or along the orange-colored cliffs of Lake Superior and the blue water of Puget Sound...
Sacred Past. Once Montreal had been the doorway to all of North America. Out of the "sacred city," founded in 1642, went Marquette, Champlain, La Salle, Du Luth, Joliet and many another to explore the New World and baptize the heathen Indians...
...best advertising slogans of the 20s and 30s was "the longest gangplank in the world." It meant the French Line-and Gallic cuisine, Gallic wines, service flavored with I-kiss-your-hand-Madame. Today the luxurious gangplank is abbreviated. Normandie, Champlain, Paris are all gone. Only lie de France, queen of luxury, and the slow-going De Grasse are left. Of the line's 53 freighters only 22 are still afloat. But the gangplank is to be rebuilt...