Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bought (through RFC: for $2,000,000) the C. & O. canal from Georgetown, D. C., to Cumberland, Md., enabling hard-pressed B. & O. to meet its interest payments for July...
...with the trading centres of the Ohio valley. Though the need for trade routes was obvious, engineers sneered at such an undertaking, and the plan was forgotten. Half a century later, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. was founded, and in 1850 an $11,500,000, 184-mile canal between Georgetown, D. C. and Cumberland, Md. was opened. For 73 years hundreds of coal barges plied between the mouth of the Potomac and mining towns over the mountains. Eventually the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose tracks paralleled the waterway, gained control of the canal...
Both teams have won all five league matches without a single setback. Harvard trounced Dartmouth, Brown, Holy Cross, Williams, and Yale, while the Tigers were defeating Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Pennstate, and Cornell...
...within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered a U. S. Jesuit, director general of his Papal Relief Mission in Russia, to "seek and find" the body of Andre Bobola. That Jesuit was Rev. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, today the stocky, white-haired vice president of Georgetown University, founder and regent of its excellent School of Foreign Service...
...trip with a majority of wins, the nine will have to be in top shape. The opener with Virginia on Tuesday will be no setup for the southerners have a fine team with plenty of hitting strength. Navy should prove to be the easiest encounter on the tour, while Georgetown will be by far the toughest. The Friars usually produce one of the best outfits in Eastern seaboard college circles. Lafayette is more or less of an unknown quantity, but Columbia will definitely be hard to beat. The Crimson trimmed them twice last year and the Lions will...