Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave notice of her intention to resign from the League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain...
...League of Nations Commissioner, Geoffrey George Knox, was busily flicking his whip last week into one of Europe's wildest dog-pits, that smoking little valley of coal on France's northeastern border, the Saar Basin. Largely German, most of his charges would two years ago have welcomed the plebiscite scheduled for next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...Memorial Association. There was almost unanimous approval of the plan itself, but it was generally agreed that although there was no doubt as to the coming necessity of the bridge, or to the merits of the proposal as the ultimate in the development of this part of the river basin, the financing of the Cambridge share of this three quarter million project, at the present time, might be difficult. It was suggested that perhaps the bridge, which in itself comprised only slightly more than half the total cost of the plan, could be constructed first and the extensive developments...
...those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night with their ke-dunking. Well, you know the rest. Like the lone coyote-like William Allen White-like several other of our institutions in this great Mississippi basin-he found that there were exactly three bullfrogs who were making all that noise...