Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eights are through for the season, tomorrow's contest should draw large crowds to the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, where the gruelling mid-point fight can be watched, and to the banks beside the finish line. If the wind is down-stream as usual, the course will run from the basin side of the Tech boat house almost to the subway bridge...
...this point Harvard was rowing its accustomed 31, while Tech had brought the beat up to about 34. On the choppy Charles basin, however, Jimmy Ducey picked up the beat, producing a finishing kick that increased the Crimson lead slightly, and staved off three Tech sprints. The checkered flag dipped after 6:58 on a mile and five-sixteenths course...
Navy. Frank Knox made a speech in Manhattan, inspected a testing basin at Carderock, Md., visited Rhode Island's Camp Endicott...
...south bank of Washington's broad Tidal Basin, the new Jefferson Monument shimmered in the thin April sunlight. A stiff spring breeze cut through the tall, white marble pillars, swept over the austere white marble dome, bent the yew and dogwood trees clustered near by. Now & again the wind shook a film of spray over the broad steps; against the marble columns it tossed puffs of cherry blossoms and coal smoke from the railroad tracks...
...workmen finished. The statue of Thomas Jefferson-in plaster until the end of World War II makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary...