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Goethals   /gˈoʊθəlz/   Listen
Goethals

noun
1.
United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928).  Synonym: George Washington Goethals.





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"Goethals" Quotes from Famous Books



... prediction that the Canal would be finished in ten years, 1915. The engineers have been better than their word. The difficulties with Mexico rendered the Canal suddenly useful to the United States, and Colonel Goethals reported that he would have the "big ditch" ready for the passage of any war-ship by May 15, 1914. That promise he carried out. The Canal is still in danger of being blocked by slides of mud in the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor
... have a President, let him sing like McAdoo, or like Luther Burbank, or like Theodore N. Vail, or like Colonel Goethals, picking up a little isthmus like Panama, a string between two continents, playing on it as if it were a harp; or like Edward Ripley playing with the Santa Fe Railroad for all the world like Homer with a ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee


Words linked to "Goethals" :   engineer, George Washington Goethals, technologist, applied scientist


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