Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belt highway. There was no surprise in the announcement; the DPW has long favored Brookline-Elm. Construction will be cheaper and easier -- had the alternate route been chosen, the department would have had to make extra efforts to stabilize the highway in the shifty subsoil of the Charles River Basin. The DPW would also have had to admit to the federal government (which pays 90 per cent of the highway's costs) that it was wrong more than a year ago when it first chose the Brookline-Elm route; the DPW was not to be moved easily from its initial...
Harvard captured the Compton Cup for the fifth straight year as all five heavyweight eights pounded to convincing victories over Princeton and M.I.T. on the Charles Basin Saturday...
...mean tail wind whipped up the Charles Basin, and only after a deadly crab stopped the Husky shell near the end of the race, did the Crimson pull from behind...
...second boat, racing in the morning, finished at the end of the Basin, 16 seconds ahead of Northeastern. Also racing in the morning was the third varsity boat, which left its competition seven lengths behind at the finish line...
...weather provided a more serious challenge than the opposition Saturday on the Charles Basin as the Harvard lightweights swept four races with Columbia. The Lions didn't have the poise or experience to handle the rolling water and stiff tailwind...