Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there time for "those costly inutilities, that supreme intellectual indulgence." Today a knowledge of the English Language "as she is spoke" and some courses in Economics often suffice for a college degree. A man's education is not infrequently judged by his ability to answer questions from an encyclopedia. The change is welcomed by some, lamented by others; at any rate, it is here...
...local encyclopedia, the University Catalogue, devotes fourteen pages to the subject of Prizes. Aside from the thousands of dollars awarded annually in the form of scholarships or financial Aids, this large number of prizes is given solely as reward for specific achievements in a scholarly or literary field. These honors may be won by every imaginable form of intellectual activity: there are two for music, two for poetry, several for debating and oratory, several for scholarship in specified subjects, and many for essays, theses, or dissertations on any topic from political science to literature. The most famous and most valued...
...First in order are the conditions affecting China's territorial and administrative integrity. Most of these conditions are of long standing. How involved they are no one who has read even so brief a history of China during the past century as can be found, for example, in the Encyclopedia Brittanica (a very good account) can be unaware. Opinions concerning conditions in what used to be called the Celestial Empire but is now certainly not a very celestial republic are, even among the well informed, extraordinarily diverse. One has only to read two such books as "The Fight...
...reference in the telegram one needs only to turn to the Encyclopedia Britannica, page 33, volume 28, for ample proof...