Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good medical record, and the city's Europeans generally choose it over the new government hospital. Few hospitals anywhere can offer such a dedicated staff, or one that lives as austerely. Each of the doctors and nurses occupies a single room equipped with iron bed, enamel wash basin and kerosene lamp; meals usually consist of fried bananas and other fruit. The old man stubbornly refuses to go modern. Says he: "Circumstances command that the hospital be primitive in keeping with the primitive state of the people." He believes that Africans enjoy discomfort, and that they are often afraid...
...Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus the tributaries. as California claimed. California's interpretation, unsurprisingly, would work greatly to California's advantage. Not a single river in California flows into the Colorado, but virtually the entire state of Arizona lies within the Colorado River Basin. If all of Arizona's streams and rivers that feed into the Colorado were included in the waters to be divvied up between the two states, Arizona would be entitled to a lot less water from the main stream and California could take a lot morea million acre-feet more...
...Eliot crew glided to an easy victory in the final house race, held yesterday over a mile course in the M.I.T. Basin. Senior stroke Lowell Johnston kept the beat at an even 32 as the Elephant shell finished two and a half lengths ahead of any competition...
With Straus trophy standings riding on every stroke, six House crews will race off the final round of the crew competition this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. on the Basin course. The eights will race upstream over the mile distance, finishing near the M.I.T. boathouse...
...operating room, surgeons made an incision in the woman donor. Removing her kidney, they placed it in a basin and carried it to an operating room next door, where another team was removing the male host's right kidney...