Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton University, after the football game in 1926, representatives of the two universities will meet in a major athletic event on Saturday, May 2, when the University crews of Harvard, Princeton, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are scheduled to take part in a triangular regatta in the Charles River Basin...
...have occurred in the U. S. One was in Humboldt Valley, Nev., in 1906-07. At the height of the plague there were from 8,000 to 12,000 mice per acre on large ranches. In 1926 an army of house mice marched out of the Buena Vista lake basin maize fields. Meadow mice joined them. Hundreds of thousands swarmed over the country, devastated 100 sq. mi. (TIUME...
Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
...sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other dam. It merely divides Colorado River water between the upper and lower basin states. Boulder Dam is an important happening for the Southwest. I know you are desirous of having facts correctly stated...
Germans Warned. To Berlin a group of 14 German miners, returned from working in Russia's Don Basin, manifestoed...