Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been leaning backwards in their efforts to prove it not so. At any rate, it can now be said, with the movie critics that this is not for the kiddies. If you want to find out about man's relation to the ape look up "evolution" in the encyclopedia and be done with...
...Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W. Bentley, Columbia University Spanish Instructor, Encyclopedia contributor (Sports); Dean F. Smiley, M. D., Cornell medical adviser. The Bulletin's preface was written by Carnegie Foundation President Henry Smith Pritchett himself, famed Astronomer, onetime (1900-1906) President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...value of the exhibition is not so much that of a spectacle as it is of a visual encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound...
...captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed by her dead sea-horse than by the rope-end tanning administered by the captain. Mathematics she learned "helping" her father work out his navigation problems. Reading she learned from an intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments was, under Stitches' supervision, the dissection of a shark that chanced to be with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native...
Britannia's anonymous "honest man" wrote in his "Diary": "I have just been told that in arranging with Mr. Garvin to undertake the editorship of the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the American proprietors stipulated that all articles on Eastern political questions should be written by Americans. . Such an instruction as the proprietors of the Encyclopedia are reported to have issued can only be directed to securing support for some policy or other, unless, of course, truth has become an American monopoly, like gold...