Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gran Chaco is rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains...
...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
...chilly. One of Dr. McDowell's Negro servants got up a roaring fire in the big downstairs room where he operated. Another put a mattress and a clean sheet on a long wooden table, a couple of wooden buckets alongside and on a side table a basin of warm water. Handy were the heavy knives and other instruments Dr. McDowell operated with, the bayonet-like needles, silver suture wire, waxed thread for ligatures. Nothing was sterilized, for Lister's and Pasteur's work was still 60-70 years in the future...
...marketing more than a reasonable surplus of its power (TIME, March 4), one amendment authorized TVA to generate power at all dams, transmit and market such power. Other amendments permitted the Authority to up its capitalization from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, annex the Cumberland River & basin to its domain...
...boats were taken down to the basin and Cutler's shell was sent over the mile and three quarters but Coach Whiteside was unwilling to reveal the time they made. It was intended to take the other two boats over the same course but the roughness of the water necessitated the abandenment of this and the shells returned to the Newell with Cutler's eight going in for showers and the other two rowing up to the Armory. This meant a ten mile workout for the latter two shells while Cutler's boat made up for their seven miles...