Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps that Harvard would rather lose to Notre Dame on the football field than win from Oxford on the cinder path. In conclusion, the article said that for the good of the country, it would be better if Harvard bathed more in the Mississippi River than in the English Channel...
...islands got into the news last month when the League of Nations investigated rumors that Japan was building naval bases at Saipan and Pelew. Japan's representative at Geneva denied that his country was thus violating its mandate, explained that increased trade in sugar from the islands necessitated channel dredging and jetty building for commercial shipping...
...famed Jüterbog Artillery School, bristling Major General Friedrich von Boetticher who has personally directed the fire of almost all the 288 field guns allotted Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. London will get as naval attaché Captain Erwin Wassner who commanded a submarine in the English Channel, won a decoration from All Highest Wilhelm II for his smart torpedo work...
...sort of bourgeois endeavor, Prince Mike, alias Harry Gerguson, has sold out on his numerous menage. Those who read with delight the spritely lines of Alva Johnson in The New Yorker, sketching the miraculous biography of this elegant phoney can hardly believe that Prince has gone the way of Channel swimmers and flag-pole sitters by accepting vaudeville contracts and writing his life story for the tabloids...
Boston's Dr. John Jeffries, with Jean-Pierre Francois Blanchard in 1785, was first to cross the English Channel in a balloon. Struggling to keep the bag aloft, they cast out successively sand ballast, wings, ornaments, all scientific apparatus (except the barometer), biscuits, apples, oars, moulinet, anchors, cords, finally their outer garments...