Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under ideal conditions the four crews of the A squad staged their first real race of the season over the one and three quarters mile course in the basin late yesterday afternoon. Stroked by J. H. Hall '27, crew C came out in front by a margin of two lengths over crew B, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. Crews D and A finished in third and fourth places...
...only the Pied Piper* or Arch bishop Hatto Il? could have done. It was not a migration of lemmings (TIME, Jan. 10) that they had to report, but an incredible multitude of common field and house mice, driven from their cosy holes in vineyards of the dry Vista Lake basin by heavy rains and by a great herd of sheep turned out to graze where grain had grown before...
...McGovern, recently returned from a trip in the unknown hinterland of the Amazon basin, after uncovering traces of civilization antidating that of the ancient Incas by hundreds of years...
...galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland. (Mr. Brewer did not suggest that the Moundbuilders had not followed their burial customs...
...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...