Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest of Compiègne Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy, Louis XVI received his Queen Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon met his bride, Marie-Louise of Austria. In a railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, 22 years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
...away at 16, sang in traveling medicine shows and San Francisco honky-tonks. He made his first records in San Francisco in 1896-wax cylinders for which he was paid $1 a batch by an Edison dealer. Soon Victor was calling him the "Denver Nightingale." In 1907 Lee De Forest, experimenting in a Manhattan office building, played Billy's record of College Life. The broadcast was accidentally picked up by the chief electrician at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It scared the daylights...
...Engaged. Forest Evashevski, 22, captain, quarterback and star blocker of the University of Michigan's football team; and Ruth Brown, 22, daughter of Michigan's Senator Prentiss M. Brown; in St. Ignace, Mich. Announced Senator Brown airily: "Most of that smart quarterbacking at Michigan...
...lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved and sue in some other court. A series of individuals might sue again & again over the same rule. An epidemic in Federal territory could not be quarantined, forest fires on the public domain might not be fought, without public hearings and advance notice; and endless quagmires of litigation could follow...
...could easily be overlooked by a traveler, its latent wealth unsuspected. Texans say that if it lay in Europe it would be called the Desolate Plains, or something equally melodramatic, and travelers would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach, oranges, carrots, cantaloupes, tomatoes, turkeys, cattle, and is proudly called by the natives the garden spot...