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Word: basin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teams from Smith, Wheaton, and Wollesley flounced around the water to the strains of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Manhattan Serenade," and "Basin Street," this last with the assistance of feet-square boards, blue on one side and red on the other. The girls did not form any flower shapes or spell out a tribute to any organization. They just swam in rhythm. "Good for the nerves," a slight fellow next to me muttered lighting a cigarette...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Health Hucksters Ogle Aquacaders | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such old Storyville favorites as Sugar Foot Stomp, Willie the Weeper and Coal Cart Blues, and Louis held the gay crowds spellbound when he sang the relatively new Basin Street Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Harvard should either awake to the fact that the automobile is here to stay or also turn the Perkins lot into a yachting basin. Robert Bracken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...fluidity that have marked him as an unmatched technician, is almost crippled by a worthless piano-bass-drum trio behind him. Almost, that is, because he handles his solos--as well as those that ought to be taken by trumpet and trombone--with loving care. "Sister Kate" and "Basin Street Blues" came from his clarinet in almost unbelievable fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilber and Hall | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...tube of trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brushless Toothbrush | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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