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Word: basin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their area could buy, fought the Santee-Cooper project in court & out. They lost. Traditionalists argued that some of South Carolina's most historic spots would go under water. They were ignored. Naturalists deplored upsetting Nature's balance by making fresh the brackish waters of the Cooper basin, teeming with life from shellfish to wild geese. For so protesting, Archibald Rutledge was censured by the State Senate, but the lower house saved him his honorary title of State Poet Laureate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Poet, Project, Pork, Progress | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...around the "iron lung" and clamoring encouragement in many tongues. Thereafter pilgrims, reporters, priests, nuns watched Fred Snite eagerly, day after day, as he attended Masses. Few saw him, however, when twice he was taken from his respirator, wrapped in a towel, placed in a 7-by-3 ft. basin in a bathhouse, to which the healing waters of the grotto are piped. Each time Fred Snite lay in the icy water for half an hour (he can now breathe for an hour without mechanical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Snite at Lourdes | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Only 179 points went to the Harvard Yacht Club in its attempt to capture the Morse Challenge Cup, from M. I. T., who checked up a score of 242 in the annual regatta held on the Charles River Basin over the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Place Fourth In Morse Challenge Event | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Starting this Saturday and continuing every weekend until June 1, a series of dinghy, regattas will be held between Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, M. I. T., Navy, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard on the Charles River basin and other college yachting centers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachters to Start Regattas | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

Tryouts for places on the team will take place tomorrow at 2 o'clock on the Basin. Among the Crimson's seasoned veterans are Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39 and Edward B. Hutton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachters to Start Regattas | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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