Word: isthmus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor, was painted by Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), famed Scandinavian-born U. S. artist.* Last week twelve of his paintings were purchased anonymously in Manhattan for presentation to the U. S. Military Academy in memory of the West Pointer who, as chief engineer, was most potent in channeling the isthmus-the late General George W. Goethals...
...then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind, 45 planes soared from her launching deck, made their way above the vital locks. At the same time the Aroostook, representing the absent aircraft-carrier Langley, a giant Sikorsky started across the Isthmus to the locks Gatun, dropped its "bombs,"' was interned in "neutral" territory...
...your story of Mr. John F. Stevens' recent trip to the Isthmus of Panama (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 10), you say that General Geo. W. Goethals "conquered the greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever...
Among those who are familiar with the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, credit for the eradication of yellow fever from the Isthmus is given principally to the late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...
...train chuffed southeastward, from the Caribbean shore toward the Pacific. In it, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, sat a quiet erect gentleman of 73. No one had paid much attention to him when he left his ship at Cristobal, but along the railway, at various stops, men who had worked 20 years or more in the Canal Zone, looked at him intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens...