Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive victory. There was still time, but the time grew shorter. German gains had been great-Rostov, the last of the Ukraine, the northern Caucasus-but not yet great enough to make 1942 Hitler's big year. Russian losses had been staggering-the last of the Donets Basin industrial area, control of the River Don, some of the oil and most of the wheat of the Caucasus-but not heavy enough to smash the Red Army. On the thunderous, smoky southern front the chips were still on the table...
Before the present building was built, the old Weld Boat Club existed on the same site. In those days, the dam below the Charles River Basin had not yet been built and the Charles was a muddy, tide-water river, which overflowed its banks into the swampy land around...
...active members, there being about 40 others who still belong from past years, use the boats and facilities of the Community Boat Club and sail in the Charles River Basin. Membership to the Boat Club being rather costly, the Harvard Yacht Club owns three tickets, which members must take with them when they want to sail...
Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...
Born in the small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...