Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...
Russian Coal to Boston. Boston is close to 5,000 ship miles from the Don coal basin of Russia; Boston is about 300 miles from the anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, about 600 from the bituminous deposits of Western Pennsylvania and of West Virginia. Yet the difference between production and shipping costs is enough for Boston to buy a shipment of coal from Russia...
MISS EARHART STULTZ GORDON BURRY BASIN WALES (COLLECT) IF YOU NEED IT ANY NEW SUITS SEE MY FRIENDS JULES ROSENWEIN AND MOE EINSTEIN PETTICOAT LANE STOP MENTION MY NAME STOP FIRST CLASS GOODS STOP YOU CANT GO WRONG STOP
...power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
...deep sea basin was formally inaugurated by President Doumergue on the quay, and ebulliently toasted at a champagne banquet aboard the French liner Paris. There Neptune, confronted by a noble fare, beamingly exchanged his metaphysical Trident for a fork, and proved once more that his control over unruly liquids is an honor to France...