Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated the crime, seriously wounded a British bank manager, but got away with only $560. One of the employees picked out Hume's picture at Scotland Yard, and Hume became Scotland Yard's most wanted...
...journey toward judgment. Roman Catholic Elgar first thought of setting the poem to music when he received a copy of it from a priest on his wedding day. But he let ten years elapse, during which he became increasingly aware of the gusts of new music blowing across the Channel from the Continent. When he finally got around to composing Gerontius (for the Birmingham Festival of 1900), he broke away from the standard English oratorio style, fused orchestra and vocal sound after the manner of Wagner's music dramas...
...test operations, the bureau used a light airplane to spot herring schools approaching the channel between Great Diamond and Peaks islands. When a school was sighted, the bureau's boats ran a 1,200-ft. length of perforated polyethylene pipe out into the channel. Air pumped into the hose by a compressor bubbled out through the holes. When the herring came to the white curtain, they turned aside, swam along it into the trap...
...they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from. So just to be on the safe side, Hitler held back 60,000 troops and a Panzer division from the Channel coast, deployed them to reinforce the French Riviera against a possible attack from North Africa...
That increase in the quality of academic ability which the CEP report reflects and tried to channel is perhaps a cause of the increase in the number of "voluntary withdrawals" from the College. In the past two years these have risen from 75 to 145, a fact which Leighton sees as perhaps "a reflection of mounting emotional tensions...