Word: channeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that peasants of the area call it "China's Sorrow," "The Ungovernable," "The Scourge of the Sons of Han."* Like a sluggish whiplash the river has many times changed its channel...
...year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that the shy and, for their children, understandably frightened Lindberghs desire. But when the English Channel tide is out, the Lindberghs may walk over almost dry rock to St. Gildas...
...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...
...York Journal and American was strong for suppression, but the New York Post wanted to know "Is Motherhood Indecent?" Said the Boston Traveler: "Every one of us was born. Is it any harm to know how?" Editor & Publisher, respected journalists' journal, editorialized: "We can point to no better channel of education than pictures selected by an editor with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine," deplored...
...first international underwater telegraph cable was laid in 1850 across 25 miles of English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected...