Panama

Examples

• The history of Panama is American history purely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the summer of 1852 the Panama railroad was completed only to the point where it now crosses the Chagres River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Had Dom Pedro lived to see the Panama-Pacific Exposition he might have listened to Professor Bell talking not merely from the other end of a room, but from the other side of a continent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thus we finally reached Panama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He sailed from the Isthmus of Panama in 1530, with an expedition of a hundred and sixty-eight Spaniards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was ratified by the Republic of Panama on December 2, 1903, and by the United States on February 23, 1904. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• About one-third of the people with me died, either at Cruces or on the way to Panama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An example of the latter, used on the Panama Canal, is seen in Fig. 232. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• New York is now, by virtue of the Panama Canal, nearer than Liverpool to Yokohama by 1,880 miles, and nearer than Liverpool to Sydney by 2,424 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In 1889 the company went into bankruptcy and operations were suspended until the new Panama Canal Company was organized in 1894. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To sail from Colon to Panama--forty-five miles as the bird flies--required a voyage around Cape Horn--some ten thousand miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Transmission over the Zone is effected through four substations and a connecting high voltage transmission line which follows the main line of the Panama Railroad. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Men to-day can feel almost as much zest in the building of the Panama Canal as they did in a military victory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To diminish the food for the disease, I permitted the company detailed with me to proceed to Panama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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