Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman four, stroked by S. A. Buckingham '27, passed the first Browne and Nichols four-oared shell at the three-quarters mile mark and finished the mile and the race two lengths ahead of the preparatory boys, yesterday afternoon in the Basin...
...physiography of the Orinoco basin explains many of the curious features of the region, says Dr. Rice...
...only polar region in the U. S. In the basin of the Yukon it is warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...
...measures to protect the French troops in the Ruhr." The first of these measures would be to straighten out the Ruhr salient by taking strategic positions to the South in Westphalia. It was estimated that France could put 200,000 men in motion: 55,000 already in the Ruhr basin, 95,000 in the Rhineland, 50,000 massed near the frontier, including large garrisons at Metz and Strasbourg, with reserves at Belford Epinal and Verdun...
...practice yesterday was marked throughout by short spurts and races among the three University crews and several class eights. The boats had a long workout, rowing to the end of the Charles River Basin. Tonight the second and last meeting for coaches, coxes and managers will be held at the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock. These meetings are largely to develop cooperation between the three branches of what might be called the crew executives...