Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joyce Hawley at the Senior Spread was something the mind balked at. It was a master fiction, too mighty for the ordinary mind, and was given no credence at Harvard and only a brief consideration beside the Basin...
...visit, predicts that the organization in general supervision of the work, called the Harvard Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, will become "a strong factor in cementing the friendship between the United States and China, which is of such critical importance in the political future of the whole Pacific basin. The Chinese themselves have recently been awakened to a new interest in their national culture. A better understanding of this culture by the outside world is of basic importance in dealing constructively with problems involving China...
...used to shuffle cards like this," he said, "in a wash basin. It's such fun. You let your fingers roam down through them till you feel a big flat book. Then you make a wish. Like this, for instance...
Brown house rats grew desperate in the London Basin" district, last week, as heavy rains flooded their lairs with seepage and made sodden the nests of mother rats. Father rats shortly held a conclave, or, if they did not, the surprising event which proceeded to occur was all the less explicable. Simultaneously, the rats and ratlings poured up from their cellars by tens, scores & hundreds, to hurry, drab and sopping, out to the old Lea Valley Road toward high, unflooded Epping Forest. Pedestrians and cyclists on the road did not pause or hold their ground as the pattering squealing rats...
...there by rail to Paris, where some time will be spent in sight seeing. The battle fields of France will be studied and the influence of their topography on the victories of the allies in the last war. Especial attention will be paid to the region around the Paris basin, where Professor Davis, one of Harvard's best known geologists, did considerable work on erosion...