Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide a catch basin to control floods. A war will be waged on the hookworm disease and malaria that infest the hot lowlands...
...essence: in history, time is a function of space; whereas all Europe lives roughly in the 20th Century, in Peru the coast is 20th, the Indian highlands 16th, the Amazon basin still prehistoric. The main conclusion: European theories cannot be applied mechanically to America, as the Marxists vainly think...
Object of municipal police river dragging for several weeks, the body of Sylvester Gardiner '46, College Junior declared missing last January 23, was discovered yesterday afternoon in a lagoon in the Boston Basin of the Charles near the Exeter Street intersection...
...Brickley reported after the examination yesterday that the 22-year old Gardiner had ice skates fastened to his feet. Lieutenant Edward L. Connally of the Lower Basin Division M.D.P., surmised that the third string football center and Varsity stroke oar had gone through an ice hole hidden from the moonlight in the shadow of a bridge farther up the river...
Police in the Boston Missing Persons Bureau last night declared it "likely" that dragging operations would commence along the Basin and further up the River on this supposition...