Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free public education is supposed to locate the able students, and by rewarding them with high academic achievement, channel them into higher education and bring them to responsible positions. Unfortunately, this process too often fails, because many students, especially those from uneducated or lower class families, do not show their abilities in the classroom...
...with an embarrassing problem. After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since the Missouri would probably wander back; if it did not, the engineers "would take the necessary corrective action...
...combat ready; the rest were largely split up into occupation units. Then there was no plan, and no communications to set it in motion. A phone call to Oslo took twelve hours, and passed through the Soviet zone of Germany. All that stood between the Russians and the English Channel, as one officer put it, "was a group of committees...
...those Chicago clubwomen, yawping and heaving about Johnny's unphonic treatment in the public schools, would channel their time and energy into home reading exercises for Johnny instead of battering the school people, everyone would be much happier, including Johnny...
...during those years, there never would have been a plan for crossing the Channel. Indeed, I think we wouldn't have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. We certainly would never have invaded Africa and the Mediterranean, and I know we never would have crossed the Channel until yet. So finally there comes places where people in authority must make decisions based on the best advice they...