Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Zittenfeld, father of the Zitten-feld Twins, 17, who tried to swim the English Channel two years ago, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for 15 months for obtaining money on forged discount bills. He said that most of the money, more than $58,000, had been used in educating his daughters, financing their swims...
armed, and wearing a breastplate decorated in high relief with symbolical figures, was discovered fallen into a massive water channel which runs down the center of the agora, and is covered, by large slabs. The statue, however, is so large that is is believed that it fell where it stood, and as it is too risky to move the new find, the statue will remain where it is until the house above it has been torn down...
...Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average is about 200,000. Formerly these tenin. discs played for only three min.; now, through a new "micro-channel" process (more grooves), introduced three or four months ago, they play for five min. The Durium Junior will play for one and one-half min. Durium Products claims there will be no waste circulation: people who buy the Hit-of-the-Week will play the Durium Junior as well, listen...
...became interested in aviation in 1910 while reporting the First International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, L. I. for the New York Times. Two months later he sailed for Europe to be taught to fly by Louis Blériot, first man to fly the English Channel.* In another three months he took his "brevet," or pilot's license from the F. A. L, brought the first racing Blériot to the U. S. and began to take one prize after another for first flights in various sections of the East. One prize...
...generally recognized as a world authority on harbors and waterways. He went to Hudson Bay, poked about among the jack-pine and reindeer moss of the two trading posts and finally decided on Fort Churchill. Heavy tides and spring freshets make the 15-mile channel from the Nelson River to Hudson Bay too difficult to keep open...