Word: channell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news that Senator Edge will be the next Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Timothy Herrick, deceased (TIME, April 8). Rich, social, commonsensical if not brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late as a Hoover _ cam paigner last year. In Paris he will be happy indeed because "just across the channel, Charley" (TIME, May 27) will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed...
Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...First air crossing of the Channel occurred in 1785, in a hydrogen-filled balloon piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard...
...most conspicuous abscess in the world resides in the lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...work there ten minutes at a time before exhaustion sets in. Despite these difficulties, a grim circle of British warships and tenders lay to all week about the buoy that marked the grave of the #47. Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would be no news, the Rodney, with half a gale still heaving her about and with seaplanes flying watch overhead, cast wreaths of white lilies on the sea, fired a salute, steamed away...