These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Savannah, Save, Savu.
a river of the United States, which forms the N. E. boundary of Georgia, and separates it from South Carolina. It is formed by the junction of the Tugaloo and Kiowee, 100 miles by the course of the river above Augusta, and is navigable to the city of Savannah for vessels drawing over 28 feet.
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or SAU (sow), a river of Jugoslavia. It rises in the Julian Alps; flows S. E. through Carniola, separates Carniola from Styria, flows through Croatia, and after a course of about 540 miles joins the Danube at Belgrade. It is in great part navigable. SAVINGS BANKS. Savings banks in the United States are classified as commercial and government or postal. There are two kinds of commercial savings banks, mutual and stock. The former are found chiefly in the eastern part of the country, while the latter are most numerous in the West and South. There were on June 30, 1919, 622 mutual and 1,097 stock savings banks. This does not include the savings departments of national banks and trust companies. The 622 mutual savings banks have total resources amounting to $5,171,551,000. This total includes loans and discounts amounting to $2,335,996,000 and investments in bonds and securities amounting to $2,491,607,- 000. The surplus funds amount to $333,- 420,000 and the undivided profits to $65,- 013,000. The individual deposits amount to $4,751,113,000. The aggregate resources of the 1,097 stock savings banks was $1,281,254,000. The loans and discounts amount to $777,941,000, the capital stock to $62,740,000, $62,740,000, the surplus and undivided p profits to $47,741,000, and the individual deposits to $1,151,464,000. School savings banks were established in the United States in 1885.
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a former duchy of the kingdom of Sardinia, now annexed to France, and forming the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, having N. and N. E. Switzerland, S. E. and S. Piedmont, and W. the departments of Isère and Ain; area, 4,162 square miles. It is the most elevated country of Europe, consist ing principally of mountains, the highest of which is Mont Blanc. The valleys and low grounds are fertile and well cultivated. Rivers: Rhône, Arve, Drance, and Isere; lakes: Annecy and Bourget. Products: wheat, oats, barley, rye, and hemp. Minerals: iron, copper, silver, lead, coal, and salt. Manufactures, cotton and woolen fabrics, hosiery, watches, clocks, glass, earthenware, etc. Capital of Savoie, Chambéry; of Haute-Savoie, Annecy. Savoy was anciently a part of Sapaudia, whence the name Saboia, or Savoy, is derived. It was erected into a duchy under Amadeus VIII., in 1416, and was ceded to France in 1860. Pop. about 500,000.
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SAVOU, or SAVOE, an island of the Malay Archipelago S. W. of Timor; area, 231 square miles. It yields millet, maize, sugar cane, cotton, tobacco, etc., and its Malayan inhabitants are subject to the Dutch government of Timor. Pop. about 26,000, principally Malays.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a family of birds, Trinitiaæ, order Insessores, comprising birds with the bill as long as the head, gently decurved near the tip, but not hooked, and the cutting edges dentated; the tarsi rather long, feet large, the middle and outer toes connected for more than half their length. This family is represented in North America by Monotus cæruliceps, the saw-bill of Mexico.
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the accumulated particles caused by sawing wood, stone, etc. Besides the more common uses of sawdust, it is commercially valuable as the basis of various manufactures. Oxalic acid is manufactured on a large scale from wood sawdust. Sawdust is also used in the "carbonating" stage of the process for the manufacture of soda ash. The substance called bois-durci (hardened wood), of which beautiful ebony-like medallions and other ornaments are made, consists of the fine sawdust of rosewood, ebony, and other woods formed into a paste and 264. pressed into molds or dies. The sawdust of mahogany and rosewood is used in dressing furs, and the small fragments of some woods, such as the pencil cedar, made by saw cuts or the turning tool, yield perfumes. Sawdust sinks in water though the wood from which it is cut floats.
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a popular name for any species of the genus Pristis, from the sawlike weapon into which the snout is produced. They are common in tropical and less so in subtropical seas, and attain a SAWFISH considerable size, specimens with a saw six feet long and a foot broad at the base being far from rare. Their offensive weapon renders them dangerous to almost all other large inhabitants of the ocean. The sawfish use their rostral weapon in tearing off pieces of flesh from their prey or in ripping open the abdomen, when they seize and devour the detached portions or the protruding soft parts.
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a group of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera and distinguished by the peculiar conformation of the ovipositor of the females, which is composed of two broad plates, with serrated or toothed edges, by means of which they incise the stems and leaves of plants, and deposit their eggs in the slits thus formed. The turnip fly, Athalia centifoliæ, and the gooseberry fly, Nematus grossulariæ, are examples.
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an insect related to the bee, the ant, and the wasp, but more closely to the ichneumon fly . Instead of a boring, drill-like ovipositor like that of the ichneumon fly, the sawfly has a pair of notched blades with which it saws a notch in the edge of a green leaf or stem in which to place its eggs. There are many kinds of sawflies. Three of the more common deposit their eggs in the leaves of the rose, the pear tree, and the currant. When partially developed the larvae frequently spin webs within which they shelter themselves. The saw-flies themselves do little damage, but their larvae are a pest in the flower and vegetable garden.
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