Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather wild rubber for the Racketeer King. Curiously enough a majority of the simple...
...keep him occupied during the leisure period. So he expects to enjoy quite as merry a Christmas as the one he now wishes his followers, and only reminds them that if they follow the parting advice of one of the Vagabond's favorite professors in his last lecture to "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", it is well worth the extra effort to pick a thornless variety...
...hundred and fifty-six new variable stars have been discovered at the University Observatory in the course of recent observations, it was announced late last night by Professor Harlow-Shapley, director of the Observatory. The observations were undertaken by the Observatory staff in the effort to gather definite information regarding stars, hitherto only slightly known, and their findings have not hitherto been published anywhere. The remarkable success of the observations is largely due to the unusual visibility afforded by the Observatory's 18-foot Coude telescope...
...University football players who played against Yale in the Bowl on November 24 will gather at the Varsity Club at 1.45 o'clock today to elect the captain of the 1929 eleven...
...Gather Books for China...