Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's second boat also led its race, edging the Deacons by a length and a quarter in the day's preliminary feature. Both races were rowed over the Basin Henley course, against a rain-laden head-wind. Eliot's firsts were clocked in 8:03, although earlier in the season they covered the same mile and five-sixteenths...
...Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri Jean Charles Eugene Denis as Defense Minister when, last year, he reached retirement age. General Denis, from an old military family, was a champion of Belgium's eastern defense line, as against the "fighting retreat" policy and a limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization, a specialist in communications, a believer in preventive mobilization. Last February, Defense Minister Denis substituted energetic Major General F. F. 0. Michiels as Chief of Staff in place of less pro-Ally Lieut. General Emile Van den Bergen, whose kidney was not for a "lastman...
Heats in preparation for final House crew races will be held over the Henley course in the Basin this afternoon with the Eliot and Adams House boats favored to finish...
...such incidents multiplied, all Europe looked anxiously toward the valley of that great, sluggish river which Germans call Donau, Slavs Dunav, Magyars Duna, Rumanians Dunarea, English -speaking peoples Danube (see map). The nations of the Danube Basin knew their danger, knew also that for their chances of remaining unmolested a little longer they could thank the richness of their valley, since would-be conquerors might well destroy the prize they covet...
Bucking a head wind, the second Yardling heavies plowed through the waves in the Basin yesterday afternoon to a three and a half length win over the Tech second Freshmen...