Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the Basin by a Curwen-stroked powerhouse shell which never had to raise the beat above 28, the Crimson forces swept the Charles in the first intercollegiate full regatta yesterday afternoon with the Freshmen and Fifties from Newell finishing close on the stern of the Varsity...
Unless the fates have decided otherwise, the Crimson will prevail this afternoon in the first intercollegiate fall regatta of Tom Bolles' Harvard career when three shells from Newell, one from M.I.T., B.U., and Dartmouth slider across the starting line of the Henley distance on the Basin at 4:30 o'clock...
Then big things happened. NBC-Blue signed Dinah as jive-diva on its Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street program. She became the darling of le jazz hot. Then Eddie Cantor hired her. She recorded Yes, My Darling Daughter, which sold half a million. A year later she started her own show. Now a minor Big Business (her earnings this year will run about $115,000), Dinah is handled by a board of five...
...effulgent moon lighted the way to German U-boat yards at Flensburg on the Baltic. Munich, Naziism's spawning ground, and the Saar industrial basin were also raided. Swiss reports said that damage to Munich had caused the cancellation of a big Nazi party...
Next most promising oil prospects are the shores of the Pacific-including Alaska, Chile, Japan, the South Sea Islands. Most promising for the U.S. is the Williston Basin, spreading over parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta. But so abundant is oil nearly everywhere that its discovery is primarily a matter of the "social state of mind." Says Oilman Pratt: "Where oil really is, then, in the final analysis, is in our own heads...