Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs to which exception is taken are not broadcast from Moscow for purposes of propaganda among the German people. They are broadcast in German for the benefit of German colonists in our own Volga basin...
...Eldridge Reeves Johnson, wife of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., on board a yacht anchored in the Johnson yacht basin at Bridgeboro, N. J., dropped a $2,000 bracelet overboard in 20 ft. of water, hired a diver to hunt...
...Freshman and combination eights, under the direction of Coach Haines, followed much the same program for both the morning and afternoon practice periods. The Freshman eight appears to have retained the power and smoothness which so impressed the onlookers at the races on the Charles River Basin in Cambridge earlier this spring...
That was when the Moors governed Spain and, like Moslems elsewhere, made no religious, cultural or economic discriminations against Jews. While the Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi...
...crew rowed down below the Tech Boat House in the Basin at a fast paddle, stopping at the Tech float before starting upstream again to let T. E. Armstrong '32 take the place of F. F. Colloredo-Mansfeld '32, who is suffering from a minor ailment which makes rowing on stretches uncomfortable. With Armstrong at stroke, the eight rowed upstream at little more than a fast paddle gradually increasing their speed until they had come into the stretch above the Western Avenue Bridge, where they raised their stroke steadily to about 40 to the minute...