Word: basin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastest and steopest skiing in the East. The headwall of Tuckerman, a cliff padded with over 200 feet of snow, has a maximum slope of above 45 degrees and is the scene of the annual Inferno races. This is strictly spring corn snow skiing, although the ravine basin and the Sherburn trail to the base of Washington are good all winter...
Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
...halls and on the terraces of Mexico's modernistic, new Teachers College, two Brazilian scientists were doing the ablest lobbying job of the UNESCO conference. Their project: a scientific study of the Amazon basin...
...until 1850, three centuries after the Amazon's discovery by a Spaniard, that white men sailed up it to exploit and trade in this jungle area that is twice as vast as the Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine...
...beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...