Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the French note had been delivered to Washington, President Hoover decided U. S. Diplomacy at Paris needed some added prestige. Therefore he flashed an order to his cautious and charming old Secretary of the Treasury. When Secretary Mellon had crossed the channel and arrived at the Gare du Nord French officials and friends, including M. Robert Lacour-Gayet, crowded to meet him. "Are you glad to be in Paris?" asked M. Lacour-Gayet. Replied Secretary Mellon: "M. Lacour-Gayet, we are here...
...only efficacious dispellers of fog. But to dissipate thin shallow fogs such as rise over a harbor the warm morning after a still, clear night, Professor McAdie suggests that fireboats squirt their streams at the mist. "Electrified spray from these mighty nozzles would not only wash a channel through the fog, but cause the fog droplets to coalesce and agglomerate and drop as a drizzling rain. The squirting would not be very expensive...
...Channel Glide...
Fortnight ago the London Daily Mail offered a $5.000 prize for the first glider flight across the English channel and back. One day last week Austria's famed Glider Pilot Robert Kronfeld, onetime holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds for two hours, landed at Dover. His return flight to Calais was in darkness, took only 20 min. Pilot Kronfeld won the Daily Mail's prize. But much of the newspaper's thunder had been stolen day before when one Lissaut Beardmon.-. Canadian opera singer, made a one-way channel...
...that the University through the generosity of Mr. Flagler, is creating a physical environment for the enjoyment of reading would it not be possible for greater stress to be laid on a knowledge of literature as a fundamental of education? The tutorial system although already burdened is an ideal channel for an education of this sort...