Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beall and end-all of Atlantean studies." Author Bramwell himself takes the Atlantis myth seriously, but his main purpose is to review Atlantean writing from Plato to the findings of contemporary geologists. The result is another literary oddity, a smoothly-written, ironic 288-page essay, partly a compendium of the work of cranks, partly exposition of some unsolved scientific puzzles...
...buildings was recognized in an issue of THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which broke all precedents for that magazine. Its main body of 102 pages, Lid out and written by Architect Wright, was an album of his work, an anthology of sturdy quotations from Thoreau and Whitman, and a compendium of Weight's building philosophy...
...Saturday Evening Post was not founded by Benjamin Franklin, as blazoned from the Post's headband. Franklin died in 1790. The Post began publication, as a compendium of news and literary contributions, August 4, 1821, in a little printing shop on Philadelphia's Market Street which happened to have inherited Franklin's old hand press, a few fonts of his type and the goodwill of his defunct Pennsylvania Gazette...
...book describes fifty different definitions of personality and fifty-two methods of studying it. Taken as a whole, it is the best available handbook on all aspects of personality and personality study. Yet it is no mere compendium, but an interesting and original approach to a subject which concerns all of us. It is not too technical for the educated reader who has not studied psychology...
Pharmacopoeia Revision Committee (17 doctors, 33 pharmacists), contains the legal specifications for preparing and testing 568 pure drugs. The National Formulary, published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a compendium of 500 popular formulas. The American Pharmaceutical Recipe Book, also published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a collection of 2,000 formulas taken from pharmacopoeias all over the world, chemical formulas and prescriptions for dental and cosmetic preparations, poisons and antidotes. New & Nonofficial Remedies, published by the American Medical Association, describes new drugs which A. M. A. authorities approve. Revised editions of these four important fat volumes, which every...