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Word: cyclopedia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulk and heroic alcoholic capacity. From their schoolteacher-mother, Lisette Schoeninger Gunther, John and sister Jean took on lifelong respect for book learning. As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History. Contents: "All the Necessary Statistics of the World," "World Battleships," "Greek and Roman Mythology with Genealogic Tables of Gods," "List of Species of World Animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Insider | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Radcliffe group will sponsor preparation of an historical cyclopedia of American women if necessary funds can be secured. The two-volume work would supplement the Dictionary of American Biography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Group Plans Biographical Work | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...CENTURY CYCLOPEDIA OF NAMES, Edited by Clarence Barnhart, was a stupendous storehouse of information, intelligently arranged and endlessly useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GENERAL NONFICTION | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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