Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest success of the week, like the greatest successes of the war, belonged to wily Marshal Semion Timoshenko. He sent his men on an oblique, ten-day, 65-mile plunge into the Donets Basin. His aim was to cut direct communications between the great center of Kharkov and the south. This he did at Lozovaya...
Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...
...highly strategic rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails connecting Murmansk with Leningrad, Leningrad with Moscow, Moscow with the Donets Basin and the Black...
...German Air Force Reserve officer has established an airport, possibly complete with a radio station, on the northern plains of the Amazon Basin (roughly six flying hours from Panama). There are about 30 recognized landing strips in the same area...