Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keppel, Dean of the Faculty of Education, was commenting on plans of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, of which Harvard is a member, to use Channel 2 in Boston for educational television...
...much work . . . Another reason is then I can get a drink of water or be excused when I want to." With that chore out of the way, young Billy started his school day. All he had to do was to turn the TV knob to channel...
Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
...Minister was in bed and asleep. He stumbled to the telephone in his pajamas and heard the excited ichthyologist pleading for an airplane to take him to the fish. Malan acted quickly. Next morning a Dakota (DC-3) of the South African air force took off for the Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...
...Channel Storm. A plump, eupeptic medical doctor, Bombard began developing his theory in 1951, when he and a friend were caught in a storm while venturing across the English Channel in a small rubber boat. The craft tossed about for five days, and in that time Bombard and his companion had nothing to eat except half a kilo of butter they had brought along as a gift for a friend in England. This experience would have soured most men on seafaring for life, but in Bombard it kindled a consuming interest in the techniques of survival. Bombard persuaded a Dutch...