Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently the MDC would like to place similar lights along both banks of the river basin. If the MDC does succeed in lighting up the basin the obvious effect would be to deter crime--all sorts of crime--along the riverbank...
...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...
Dent in the Backlog. Putting fluorides to work on a test basis, the Navy has adopted a three-stage treatment. First, each patient is given a basin, a toothbrush, a small cup of pumice paste containing stannous fluoride, and a five-minute lecture on how to proceed. He brushes his teeth for ten minutes. Next, he is plopped into the dentist's chair. A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution. Third, the patient gets up to 15 minutes of instruction in how to make daily...
...keep the sea water out and to transform the Charles into an entirely fresh water river. In 1908, the Charles River Dam was built near the present site of the Museum of Science, and the eight-and-a-half mile long, 300 million gallon capacity Charles River Basin was created. The fresh water basin could have absorbed and treated "naturally" the storm water overflow sewage...
...again objectives were confused and the Charles, caught in the middle, lost out. Since the Basin was designed promarily for recreational purposes the lock in the dam has to be opened--more frequently now than ever--for motor boats. Each lock-opening admits salt water, and the wedge of salt that gets into the basin prevents oxygen from circulating throughout the water to treat the sewage. And so the Charles remains polluted...