Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encases the heart, and with a burr abraded a raw spot on the beating heart. Against that raw spot he placed the raw end of the pectoral muscle. Within a short time blood vessels grew out of the muscle and into the heart, thus supplying blood by a roundabout channel from the aorta across the chest and into the side of the heart...
During the War Monsignor Pacelli was appointed Nuncio at Munich. That nunciature was the channel through which many, an important diplomatic negotiation was carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal...
...Julius Caesar, St. Augustine of Canterbury, William the Conqueror and almost everyone else through the ages who has traveled between England and the Continent, the English Channel has been an annoying journey. This week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...
Train ferries are not new. On the Channel, they were first tried during the War for freight only. The new passenger service required the building not only of new ferries, but of new railway cars. The cars are smaller than standard, to take up less room aboard ship, which also carries a garage. Although the ferries can accommodate twelve sleeping cars on four tracks, the first train tried on the run was made of only four cars. It left Paris at 11:30 p. m.. reached Victoria Station next morning. Cost of first class ticket...
...bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 5). It was scarcely worth the breath in which it w.as...