Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether it might sometimes go too far. Instead of the heart simply slowing down, Dr. Wolf asked himself, might it not actually stop? To check his reasoning, he talked his wife and three children into joining other volunteers in repeatedly dunking their faces in a wash basin while he took their electrocardiograms. Their heart rates promptly slowed down. One of Wolfs most important findings was that fear intensified the reflex. If a man feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus causing a reflex so marked that his heart will quit...
...Harvard's sailing team heads for the Coast Guard Academy this morning for a weekend of races, the Radcliffe faction of the Yacht Club will be making last-minute preparations for the Radcliffe Invitational Regatta, to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Charles River Basin...
...Passed in the House, 383 to 0, a ten-year, $160 million water-resources planning bill that would grant $5,000,000 a year to the states to encourage water programs of their own, establish half a dozen or more river-basin commissions, and create a Water Resources Council, including the Secretaries of Interior, Agriculture, Army, and Health, Education and Welfare. The Senate had already passed a similar measure...
Some fancy gymnastics and a fair wind marked the Yacht Club's first spring race yesterday, as the Interclub Dinghys spryly dipped their masts to clear five brigcs which studded the course from Weld Boathouse to the Charles Basin...
...race will begin at 2:30 p.m. today the Weld Boathouse, and will finish the Charles Basin. To alleviate the problem of passing under the bridges , the Yacht Club Race Committee partially ammended the standard rules to permit crows to lower their masts under bridges...