Word: ebbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from A to Zygote, that mankind has ever thought...
Asses' Milk. Last week, at its headquarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, EB was getting ready to celebrate a milestone in its history: its 50th year under U.S. ownership. Meanwhile, the 1951 printing (prices: $239.95 & up) had just gone to press, with 38 million words, 17,600 illustrations, and 41,200 articles from 4,060 contributors. But in spite of all this, EB's editorial board could hardly pause for breath. "You may be just about completed with 1951," says Editor Walter Yust of his job. "But then you've already started...
...EB itself, there has never been any relief of finishing. Its first edition appeared in 1768 in Edinburgh: three volumes put out by a "society of gentlemen." To these gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
...fifth edition, the editors could talk about the Rosetta stone; by the eighth, about anesthesia; by the tenth, about appendicitis. As it added subjects, EB also added writers, and such notables as Sir Walter Scott on chivalry and Lord Macaulay on Samuel Johnson were among its authors. Gradually, U.S. scholars also began to contribute (the first, in the 18505: onetime President Edward Everett of Harvard). As U.S. sales increased, Americans began to take a hand in the editing too. Finally, in 1901, two high-powered Americans, Horace E. Hooper and Walter M. Jackson, bought out EB entirely...
...undergraduate field workers will not concern themselves with scholarships or financial aid. Any prespective applicant who needs financial help will eb referred directly to F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, director of scholarships, John U. Moore '34, assistant to the Provost, and the local Harvard Club. There authorities will then follow-up a case with interviews and pamphlets...