Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, President Roosevelt could see spring right outside his office. Near his window a white jasmine shrub was beginning to blossom; pansies popped their bright faces around the brooding State Department rookery. The cherry trees budded around the Tidal Basin-except for the four sawed down in December by overzealous patriots. At noon and night, Washington's parks, where the iris grew almost fast enough to be watched, were filled with lonesome boys & girls from small towns, who wondered how the spring looked back home...
Major event of the whole yacht racing season in intercollegiate circles is the annual regatta for the Morss Trophy. This year, the event will take place again on the Charles River Basin...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops have smashed one of the strongest German points in the Donets Basin, tearing open a huge gap in the battle line, and another on the north front just south of Staraya Russa, where the 16th German Army of more than 100,000 men lines in a death trap, front dispatches said, today...
Heavy fighting was reported raging throughout the Donets Basin of the Ukraine and the Russians were hauling artillery through the new breech in the line for pulverizing assaults on German forts...
Died. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, head of the Vanderbilt clan, great-grandson of Founder "Commodore" Cornelius; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard the yacht Ambassadress; in the City Basin at Miami. Reserved, plodding, famed for his Vandyke beard and his yachts,* he was an inventor (30 devices for improving freight cars and locomotives), a soldier (Mexican border and World War I), financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically...