Word: firs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...
...Yellowstone National Park is as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The Yellowstone Park is 80% heavily forested with spruce, fir and several varieties of pine...
...certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...
...darkened dust now called the Black Hills, none but a foreign reader will be reminded of Miinchausen, Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high in his orange and lavender checked wool socks; that he invented the logging industry and combed his beard with a young fir or redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches...
...Russia ceded a southern portion of the island to Japan. That was part of the price paid by Russia for losing the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Now Sakhalin, or Karafuto, is rich in alluvial gold and coal deposits. Its surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable to those obtaining in inland British Columbia. Moreover, the island has but a mere...