Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lithuanian Government likewise appealed to the League, requesting that Poland be restrained from occupying "the Lithuanian forest of Podaje" on the Lithuanian-Polish frontier. The Polish Government simultaneously filed an appeal asking that Lithuanian troops be withdrawn from the forest, "which is actually Polish...
...recent investigations which are said to have been the costliest are those by the Committee on Mines & Mining into gold and silver production, by the Committee on Public Lands & Surveys into forest reserves, etc., and by the special committee under Senator Couzens into the Internal Revenue Bureau...
Directors of the Pacific Oil Co. were Henry W. de Forest, E. P. Swenson, Charles H. Seger, Mortimer L. Schiff, James S. Alexander, Gordon M. Buck and Charles A. Peabody, all of Manhattan; Samuel Rea of Philadelphia and Paul Shoup 28 of San Francisco. It was incorporated in 1920 and now works extensive fields in California and in the Southwest...
...life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded...
self from the battle and came to the cabin in the forest. Hunding discovers that Siegmund and Sieglinde resemble each other and, fearing that Siegmund will kill him when he discovers his own treatment of his wife, he challenges him to a battle for the next morning...