Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dehra Dun, India, experts of the Forest Research Institute announced the perfection of a process for making white paper out of bamboo pulp; predicted that India could soon supply a large percentage of the world's paper demand. (A bamboo forest grows to an average height of 20 to 60 feet. The largest species reaches a height of 120 feet...
...President. At the press conference it was supposed that the President would lift the cloud concerning the species and dimensions of his fish. He did not. Five days later, the President caught singlehanded a six pound bass on a troll line, and five brook trout with trusty bamboo pole and juicy angle worms-rain, high wind, notwithstanding...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
...Cleveland the Hip Sing Tong, at a banquet to visiting delegates, served them slender shoots of bamboo with eggs which had been buried in mud for scores of years...
...regard to race, religion or record in the social register were lined up in a big queue. Shortly before 10 o'clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel...