Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuts). Anti-aircraft fire kept the photographers of Wilhelmshaven (fast, long-nosed Blenhelms) at least 12,000 ft. aloft but the picture reveals at (1) a capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven's great shipyards is just visible on the lower right...
Snow was general over the Southern States last week. A high-pressure area sweeping southeast from the frozen Mackenzie Basin of northern Canada brought in a week of sleet and rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives...
...land, they are the victims upon whom Hitler's hate and spite descends. Look at the small but ancient and historic States which lie in the North, or look again at that other group of anxious people in the Balkans or in the Danube Basin. . . . Every one of them is wondering tonight which will be the next victim on whom the criminal adventurers of Berlin will cast their rending stroke [see p.31...
...creaky stairs to the primo tenore's dusty dressing room,* fumbles around among the costumes of Tenors Richard Crooks and Giovanni Martinelli for his own raiment of deer skins and knightly robes. He washes himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar and trundles down to the wings...
...Kansu, China's most northwestern province, is situated the sizable city of Lanchow, for centuries China's gateway to Central Asia and beyond. Also through this city the Tartar, Turk, Hun, Mongol, Buddhist and Christian first entered the broad, populous Chinese basin below the Great Wall...