Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriate moment for a man to die is nowhere so well understood as in the Soviet Union. Thus the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia lauds Stanislav Faddeevich Dorozynski, an early naval airman who made one of the first flights across the Baltic, as a "pioneer of Russian aviation," but carefully notes that he perished in a crash back...
...mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia of Music. Stokowski took himself off in high dudgeon, refused to clarify for reporters either his birth date or parentage...
...flooding into the library's reference center for answers to Tangle Towns clues. Pages have been torn from atlases, and thousands of dollars worth of other books mutilated or stolen. Fights have broken out when as many as 25 people tried to grab the same volume of an encyclopedia; some eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where no one else could find them. Copies of the WPA's guide to New York state have not only disappeared from the library and most of its 80 branches; its price...
...official Soviet Encyclopedia, Vishinsky's past is prettily arranged for posterity. He appears as a revolutionary almost from childhood, a man persecuted by regimes hostile to progress, a brilliant and prolific author of legal works, a pillar of probity in the Soviet state. But then, of course, Vishinsky, once editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, was able to rewrite history...
...luck that day, upon leaving the institute, to board the wrong elevated train. When the train stopped, I found myself in the Russian zone with a People's Policeman asking for identification. I thought first of the scraps of notepaper in my pockets, including what the Russian Encyclopedia has to say about the cardinals in Vatican City, which had amused me greatly while copying it down...