Word: basin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against a Columbia crew that is its inferior on paper and a Tech crew that has already lost its shirts to Harvard, the Varsity eight will take the water tomorrow in the Basin at 5:30 o'clock with a good chance of victory...
...conditioning, Dr. Gorrie placed the ice in "an ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
...years since oil was first found oozing from the ground around masses of asphalt in the Maracaibo Basin, more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum have crossed the shallow bar that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields...
...three adjoining States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which have had no less than ten meetings since last November on labor compacts, anti-crime measures, highway safety, milk control, stream pollution and water supply, relief for jobless transients, use of the waters of the Delaware River basin. No noteworthy compacts have yet been made, but legislative programs have been worked out and the wheels of co-operation have been started turning...
With only a week and a half before the Princeton-M.L.T. race, the Crimson Varsity eight is doing its two miles in the Basin pretty regularly. This year Charlie Whiteside has altered the prescription he gave the 1935 Varsity and is leaving his first boat strictly alone, giving them a lot of work with a promise of no mid-season changes. Although no races have been run off yet, it is quite possible that the boat as it has rowed for the last week will be the one to meet Yale on June...