Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed, the convention has seemed bleak and drear. There is much that is bright and beautiful about the Forest City, but the delegates are heavy with sobering business, and their rendezvous is close to the sooted and drab Union Station and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument...
...Passed the annual Department of Agriculture Appropriation Bill, carrying $60,000,000, in just 15 minutes. $1,000,000 was included for the acquisition of National forest lands...
Prizes of $100 each were also distributed to the Alliance Players of Jersey City, with Caleb Stone's Death Watch, an ironic comedy of the death chamber by Martin Flavin, and to the Gardens Players of Forest Hills, with Crabbed Youth and Age, by Lennox Robinson...
...Passed a bill appropriating $2,000,000 for the protection of forest lands, reforestation and extension of national forests...
Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...