Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin the military expert of the Tageblatt declared: "It might not be a feat of madness on Mussolini's part to invade the Nile Basin. We believe Italy could obtain the mastery of Egypt without the firing of a single shot in the Mediterranean...
Thence, up and I did pour could water into the basin and did refresh myself and so, very sprightly, to breakfast on bran and jam and muffins and thence to stroll along the River whereupon I did meet--and we did marvel at the weather; after which preliminaries we took to examining the morning news. "Experiments have been conducted by Probation authorities," one encouraging bit did read, "and as a result it has been demonstrated that 'bad boys' are no different from other boys, except that the former have been caught." And I thought to myself how wonderful is science...
...lecture on "Explorations in the Amazon Basin" will be given by Alexander H. Rice '94, Director of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, at the Institute on Divinity this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
Fall crew was brought to a close yesterday with a pair of races over the three-quarter mile course in the Basin both of which were dominated by the Freshmen. In the initial race the first Freshman outrowed the first Varsity and led them across the line by more than half a length while the second Varsity boat was bringing up the rear...
...Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long-winded, impatient hero of the Revolution, whose hatred of property is so intense that he is determined to socialize...