Word: basin
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...eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world, but were organized and developed in that very region itself. This culture then and its initial stages, called the "Amorgan period...
Some time this week the two launches "John Harvard" and "Veritas" will race in the Basin in order to test their relative speed. After this trial the "Veritas" will be revarnished and painted...
...Geology of the Richmond Basin, in Virginia," and "The Geology of the Narragansett Basin" are the titles of two new books which Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth have collaborated in writing. Mr. Woodworth has also written a monograph on the structure and origin of the rocks in which the coals of Eastern Virginia are found. His report on "The Occurrence of Fossil Vertebrate Footprints in the Carboniferous Rocks of Massachusetts" is ready for publication...
...account of the high wind in the basin yesterday the graded crew races were postponed till today. They will be rowed down stream at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...class trial races were again postponed on account of the high wind which made rowing in the basin on Saturday practically impossible. If the weather today permits they will be rowed, all upstream, in the following order. The new drawings for choice of position allow the captains of the various crews to choose their courses this morning...