Word: encyclopaedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: Fourteenth Edition. A New Survey of Universal Knowledge?The Encyclopaedia Britannica...
When the directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
...same system, roughly, through the appointment of F. Stuart Crawford as research secretary. This post, however, went under a cloud when it was found that the Coolidge addresses, when dealing with geography and other indis- putable facts, followed with a striking literalness the text of the International Encyclopaedia. Besides, Mr. Coolidge had a certain vanity about his literary style which he considered inimitable. Lobby gossip went out through Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns or Private Secretary Edward Clarke not through Mr. Crawford...
Since this statement still seemed a trifle cryptic, smart reporters decided to look in their office encyclopaedia and see what Old Max had painted. Persons of superior culture know that he chose to paint subjects lashed and gored by Fate-the poor, the orphaned, the aged and desolate. For years Max Liebermann haunted the orphanages, asylums and old people's homes of Amsterdam and later the great German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today...
When Diderot, leader of France's 18th century philosophes, edited his great Encyclopaedia, he was harassed and vilified. Valuable plates were destroyed by Government agents; behind his back, articles were viciously, cruelly emasculated...