Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skim ten to twenty-eight feet of water off the surface of Lake Ontario. Pour it into the Mississippi River basin from Cairo, 111., to the Gulf. The resultant swamp will be a mild picture of the conditions which Spring-swollen rivers actually produced in the lower Mississippi valley last week...
...eight men, following the race held by the crews of the A squad in the basin last Saturday afternoon, has reduced the first squad to 16 men, the number which will be retained throughout the rest of the season. The two 150-pound eights staged a race over the Henley distance, following the two mile clash of Coach Brown's men and have also been rearranged with some cuts and some promotions...
...fourth consecutive time in as many races, Crew X led its opponents, Crews Y and Z, in a one and seven-eighths miles downstream race in the basin yesterday. The time made by the winning crew was unusually fast for this early stage in the oarsmen's development...
...group on Tour 1 will proceed to Kharkkov, the Don Basin, up the Dnuper to Kiev and then through White Russia. Tour II will include the Caucasus and the Volga, making possible a study of the old and new agricultural systems. Tour III will take in the Volga, the Caucasus and Crimea, while Tour IV will be devoted to the Urals...
...race which was tentatively slated to be held in the basin, a ten minute clash from Brighton to Water-town was substituted. The cold weather and the breeze combined to make anything but favorable rowing conditions and none of the crews reached the stride of which they are capable. Though the showing was not satisfactory as far as the crews in general were concerned crew X from the start demonstrated its right to lead with crew Y second and crew Z a poor third...