Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Rime

a term commonly applied to hoarfrost, but now technically used both in America and England to designate the RUSSIA rough or feathery coating of ice often seen on trees, telegraph poles, etc., and caused by the deposition of undercooled fog drops frozen on coming into contact with solid objects.

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL ASSOCIA- 20 TION, an organization established for the purpose of erecting in Washington a monumental memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States; to create a Roosevelt Memorial Park at Oyster Bay, N. Y.; and to perpetuate the ideals of the former President by spreading the knowledge of his character and career. A Bureau of Rooseestablished to collect and arrange biographical material for historians. velt Research and Information has been RUMANIA. In 1921 Rumania signed treaties with Czechoslovakia and with Jugoslavia, with the purpose of mutual support in reparations and mutual defense in case of attack. On the other hand, Rumania cultivated sympathetic relations with her former enemy, Bulgaria. The territory of Bessarabia, however, which had been assigned to Rumania by the Supreme Council and the League of Nations, was a source of difficulty with the Russian Soviet Republic, which had never recognized the decree giving Bessarabia to Rumania, and announced a state of war in that territory.

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