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...youngster's moth first consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turned to the New England Museum of Natural History, who suggested the University Museum...
...State of Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
...Under a $200,000 grant from TIME Inc. and $15,000 from the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year . . . shows the following eight schools as having been founded in the year indicated: 1) Harvard-1636, 2) William & Mary-1693, 3) Yale-1701, 4) University of Pennsylvania-1740, 5) Princeton-1746, 6) Washington & Lee-1749, 7) Columbia-1754, 8) Brown-1764. This puzzles me. . . . RICHARD H. MILLER Washington...
...work, not of newspapermen, but of educators, philosophers, lawyers, a poet, a banker. They, and a handful of assistants, had met 17 times, heard 283 witnesses, reflected and argued as the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They were financed by grants from Time Inc. ($200,000) and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ($15,000). But their conclusions were strictly their...