Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week some visitors were crossing Cabot Strait, 100 miles by ferry to Port aux Basques, where they took the 547-mile-long narrow-gauge railway to the capital city of St. John's (pop. 56,000). Others flew to Gander Airport. Still others sailed through the narrow channel that leads to St. John's landlocked harbor...
...concerned: do not fall into the illusion that a government of violence and dishonesty is a necessary channel for the scientific view of the world, to which the future supposedly belongs. Such a future could only be a future in which man can no longer...
Clarin went to Belgium and took a plane to London. When he got there, Clarin told the British immigration official that he had torn up his passport over the Channel, and that this formally made him a citizen of the world. "I see what you mean," said the Briton...
...years, French horses had crossed the Channel to win the race dearest to English hearts: the Epsom Derby. Last week, the French came within a whisker of winning again. It took Nimbus, a game chestnut bred by a bookmaker and owned by the wife of a British barrister, to outlast French-owned Amour Drake in the 170th and richest of all English Derbies (the winner's bundle...
...occupation gave Munch his chance to get the world-wide reputation he did not have time to acquire before 1939. He was the first conductor invited across the Channel, and soon after he was touring Europe, South America, Palestine, and Egypt...