Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot's first and second crews swept to the House rowing championships on the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
Williams and Reporter Don Petit, 32, who had already made a reputation in Florida exposing bookmaking and police graft (TIME, June 13, 1949), then discovered that District General Manager Bateman, whose salary was $550 a month, was building an $85,000 house for himself, complete with a private yacht basin. They also charged that he had become one of the biggest real-estate operators in the Keys by buying land that was later improved with public funds...
Princeton, although finishing second behind M.I.T., beat the varsity and Yale lightweight crews Saturday in the Basin to retain the Goldthwait Cup, symbolic of the Big Three supremacy. Tech, which does not compete for the cup, covered the mile and 5-16 of rain and choppy water...
...third varsity heavy crew, stroked by sophomore Ed Mathews, finished a third of a length ahead of Amherst's varsity eight yesterday afternoon on the ruffled Charles River Basin. The race was rowed over the Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths...
...could be pointed out that when the life of a fortress depends upon an airlift, the first need is to ensure the protection of the landing strip and to build it outside the reach of enemy artillery. But they wanted to install themselves in a basin without occupying the surrounding hills, and the terrain was neutralized from the first day of the battle. And our artillery proved so powerless to locate the enemy guns that the colonel responsible committed suicide in his bunker on March 14th, by blowing himself up with a hand grenade...