Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve crews from Harvard, M.I.T., and Princeton will participate in the first intercollegiate regatta of the season in the Basin on Saturday afternoon. The Freshman, second Varsity, 150-pound Varsity, and Varsity crews of each college will race at 2.30, 3.00, 3.30, and 4.00 o'clock, respectively...
...Union Committee announces that Captain Warwick M. Tompkins, of the schooner "Wanderbird," now docked in the Charles Basin, will speak in the downstairs common room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock on Thursday. He will speak on his "Mediterranean Cruise under Sail...
...tower is the scene of great activity on this morning. Motes dance in the sunbeams, and the Vagabond dances behind a screen as he dons his trousers. Water tinkles against the sides of the basin as he sluices his gnarled face in the limpid pool. He dashes through the room, adding touch after touch to his creation of sartorial ineffability. His cutaway in place, he adds a final caressing stroke to his ascot, bathes its center in the refulgent aura of a heavy gold pin, and descends the innumerable stairs...
...called for a Tennessee Valley Authority-"a corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise . . . charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin." Declared he in his special message: "The Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use transcends mere power development; it enters the wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, reforestation, elimination from agricultural use of marginal lands and distribution...
With present seatings probably as they will be for the Princeton M.I.T. race, the Crimson navy shows a smoothness and power which does not characterize the Tech crews now working out in the basin. Unless the technique of the Blue and Grey oarsmen shows a marked and immediate improvement, their chances for victory in the triangular contest will be negligible. The Princeton squad is still an unknown quantity in New England, but it is rumored that the Tiger is turning out a formidable four-mile crew, despite the fact that the longest water course at Princeton extends two miles...