Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise announcement from University Hall yesterday revealed that John Benjamin Obbey, a two ounce tautly residing in the Registrar's Office, will attempt to swim the English Channel next summer...
...turtle now practices nightly under the tutelage of Registrar clerks Shirley Dixon and Lois Bickford, who discovered him in Maine two months ago. The trainers and now at work peeling his paint so he can swim the Channel nude...
...spent a log of time in may bathtub after that and I knew that if he ever swam the English Channel, it would have to be with a woman...
...access to the city as the new span provides, the engineers estimate that nearly two million more vehicles will come into the city in 1950 and that, within 25 years, the figure will go over the 18 million mark. When the old drawbridge is torn out, the Mystic River channel can be widened and any seagoing vessel whose superstructure doesn't stand over 135 feet can go up the river to Everett and Chelsea...
...place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both Hap Arnold and air power. "If one man could do it once, what...