Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the bow of another ship. Nascopie's Captain Thomas Smellie's incredulous hail got a booming reply from veteran Arctic Trader Patsy Klingenberg, from the deck of the Schooner Aklavik, eastbound to Baffin Island, and astonished Eskimo cheers from both crews echoed through the rock-bound channel. That night captains of both vessels described from their anchorages to Canadian Broadcasting Co. and NBC audiences their historic meeting. Hopeful for the growing trade of the North were residents and sponsors of Churchill that somehow Northwest Passage II would bring business, help redeem millions of dollars sunk in Canada...
...into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award pointed up the fact that the radio, not only a channel but a frequent source for prize-money, may increasingly replace rich individuals as a patron of music...
...Channel Islands off the coast of England, George Abell, onetime society editor of the Washington Daily News, had been living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying his onetime good friend, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, divorced wife of Mr. Abell, mother of the child. They had followed Mr. Abell from the U. S. when they learned he had left through Canada contrary to a court order giving him six months custody of Tyler...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...French and Spanish Leftist Governments. Declared prominent British Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, M. P.: "I desire to make it clear that members on the Labor benches are ready to support any action which, without injuring our position, is of benefit to the other democratic nation across the English Channel...