Word: channeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collect data and photographs for a thesis on "The Development of European Art in Japan," saw that two Japanese had been arrested for photographing the Harvard Bridge here yesterday, which would naturally be readily vulnerable in the case of a Japanese expedition through the Bering straits and the Northwest Channel. They are investigating the possibility of changing the subject to the "Development of Art in Korea...
...field in his time. As dramatic critic, first on the New York Times, later on the New York Herald, Sun and World, he gushed one day like a Southern belle, the next flogged, like Simon Legree. As playwright, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman on the moderately successful Channel Road (1929), Dark Tower (1933). As contributor to The New Yorker, he wrote with equal vivacity on anagrams and croquet, of crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While...
...gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...
Last week the Taimyr struggled within a mile of the Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist...
...conversation across 3,000 miles of ocean some short-wave channel between 14 and 60 metres is required. A. T. & T. announced last week that it had bought 2,500 acres of land near Manahawken, N. J. on which to erect a chain of "rhombic" or diamond-shaped antennae no less than two miles long, for transatlantic short-wave reception. The rhombic arrangement, already tried out experimentally for some years, makes possible a directional focussing effect and cuts fading, at times of ethereal turmoil, to a minimum...