Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Channel, from the Orkneys south to Dover, the low-lying British coast lay beaten and flooded. Here & there a lonely church spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped...
When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann told the story of that ill-fated trip in a bestselling book, Last Voyage (TIME, March 24, 1952), and resolved to sail alone on the first lap of the adventure she and her husband had planned together...
...institute had originally field plans to set up each a station early last spring before the F.C.C. announced that it was releasing F.C.C. channels for educational use. The state committee must now tile a plan to put such a channel in use in June 2, otherwise the station will be released for commercial...
High cost is one of the other blocks to maintaining an educational channel her Pei estimated that final capital cost to set up the station would run above $300,000 with an annual operating expense of about...
...immediate effect upon general college teaching, nor did he feel that the Boston channel would be used extensively by the Harvard Undergraduate...