Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet a minute, and you glide 1½ miles a minute. That gives you about ten minutes during which you can find a spot to land within a 900-square-mile area." Sundin burned into the students' brains the radio frequency of 121.5 megacycles, the universal "Mayday" channel. "Now," he pointed out, "if something goes wrong, you just turn to that frequency and say 'It's Mabel-Help!' and they'll help. Why, they'll clean every other airplane out of the area for you, Mabel, and they'll talk you right into...
Before its channel to the sea silted up, Bruges was a thriving port, grown wealthy under its Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, from banking and the wool trade with England. The prince's financial adviser, Hippolytus de Berthoz, presumably commissioned both triptychs to honor his saint's name. The heraldry painted on the outer faces of the triptych suggests that it was done some time between 1480 and 1494, almost certainly by a master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, a medieval union that included saddlers and glassworkers...
High & Dry. Duisburg's troubles began with the river Rhine. The city's commerce flows through its Rhine harbor, which is ringed with steel mills and swarms with barge traffic. Years ago, the river started falling. Dredging and straightening of the channel downstream had made the water flow faster, and the quickened flow lowered the river's level. It also eroded the river bed, which lowered the water level still more. Duisburg's vital harbor got shallower and shallower. Dredging the harbor to keep pace with the fall of the river would have narrowed its sloping...
...give Britain 30 universities by 1965, the University Grants Committee -which administers government funds while fending off government control-first authorized the new Sussex campus in Brighton, the holiday town on England's Channel coast. Then it opened a national competition for six more universities of 3,000 students apiece. To snag them, towns had to offer cash, 200-acre sites and fitting cultural attractions. Scenting profits as well as prestige, 20 cities and towns launched a regular gold rush, cranked up lively boosters and lavish brochures (Lancaster: "A progressive, prosperous and well-balanced community...
Unfortunately they were, and even more unfortunately a WOBH-TV camera crew was taping the Crimson's humiliating defeat for an October 17 broadcast over channel...