Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover," said the soldier...
THESE EVENTFUL YEARS-The Encyclopedia Britannica (2 vols.)-$11.50. Two ponderous volumes, containing 1,351 pages of reading matter, attempt to relate the story of the present Century. From the four legendary corners of the earth-from the U. S. to Australia, from Russia to South America-the Encyclopedia Britannica has gathered the experts of the world and has persuaded them to write contemporary history...
...Funk & Wagnalls Co. in 1891, having established the Literary Digest in 1889. Beside the bulky, bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06), Schaff-Hertzog's Encyclopedia of Re ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works. Dr. Funk's guiding passion was for undertakings on a big scale with a special penchant for lexicography. When he died, he had just completed...
...opponents for the Republican nomination are almost equally picturesque figures. One is Louis Arthur Coolidge (no relative of the President). Louis A. Coolidge is 62. He is distinguished by being the man who wrote the article on the Republican Party for the Encyclopedia Brittanica. He was at one time President of the Coolidge Family Association. He began his career on the staff of the Springfield Republican. Following that, he spent five years as private secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge. He emulated his chief, who wrote the Life of George Washington for the Statesman's Series by himself writing...
...doubt if there are more than a dozen men who can really write an original composition, and they are mostly the men who write editorials for the CRIMSON or the Advocate. When a man writes a thesis for his Ph. D. degree, he really rewrites something from an encyclopedia. There is nothing really original about it. You can't blame him, however, for not being original for he has never been taught to English A is a good course, but it involves mechanical writing, net imaginative. In the French schools the students are made to write at least one original...