Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cities and countryside alike had been devastated. Fischer found Poltava and Kremenchug "worse than Berlin," his previous superlative of destruction. Kharkov was almost as bad. The great Donbas industrial basin was one wide ruin. Rural areas were little better...
...harbor of grimy Liverpool, swept by racing tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier...
Coach Tom Bolles this afternoon at 5:40 o'clock brings his varsity crew to the season's most decisive test on the Annapolis middles home waters in the Severn basin. Despite the fact that regular stroke Torby Ross is not yet ready to resume his rowing chores and bowman Bill Cochran and cox Grant Thomas are laid up with colds, the Crimson varsity enters the nine-way regatta an one of the two favored shells...
About last Saturday's race on the gray and unsettled Charles Basin, Bolles said, "I can't be happy over losing a race, but the Jayvees did as well as they have done all season, and the Varsity did even a little better...
...successful drilling in the Oden-daalsrus vicinity, may-if the rest of the reef bears out the first core's promise-prove an old geological theory. Geologists have long guessed that Johannesburg's famed, rich Witwatersrand and its wealthy western extension are part of a prehistoric geological basin whose opposite curve cuts beneath the Odendaalsrus district and could produce a similar bonanza...