Word: brittanica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...
...nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
Under "Meteorology" in Volume XVIII [Encyclopaedia Brittanica], page 284, at the end of the second column in referring to cyclones, I find: "The term cyclone among meteorologists . . . is equivalent to the older usage of whirlwind, and it is unfortunate that misunderstandings often arise because local usages in America apply the word cyclone to what has for centuries been called a tornado...
...Professor Kirsopp Lake, who will discuss "Religion, Yesterday and Tomorrow." Professor Lake, who lectured this year at two meetings of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion, is the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History and is the author of many writings on religion, including articles in the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...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...