Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bunau-Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which he lost a leg, and coworker of Ferdinand de Lesseps who almost built the Panama Canal French private companies, has come back to his first love. He wants to substitute a billion-dollar, sea-level strait, 1,000 feet wide at the bottom for the present lock canal built by the U. S. Government under President Roosevelt...
...opened his campaign for this objective with a notable speech to th. Cincinnati Commercial Club, before which, exactly 23 years ago, he preached the necessity for the Panama route instead of the Nicaraguan. At time he also advocated a sea-level strait instead of a lock canal. The Panama route was chosen but the sea-level program was abandoned on account of expense...
...eliminate these disadvantages he proposes a sea-level strait conforming to the following conditions...
...Freedom from any difficulty to navigation from differences in the tidal levels of the two oceans. The maximum difference of water level would not, he declared, produce a current of more than 3.5 knots in a 1,000-ft. channel 50 ft. deep...
...stimulus, therefore, will probably be absent, and the diffusion of cultural education "to all members of society" may be much slower than expected. Certainly, the more such knowledge can be spread, the better; and if an aristocracy of brains can be succeeded by a democracy with the same level of mental attainment, the millenium will be near...