Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Mr. Peterkin goes on to declare that the tutor "has it in his power to influence not merely the intellectual tastes of his men but their character and their standards of conduct", he is expressing his own opinion. That a tutor should be more than a walking encyclopedia is to be affirmed, but that he is to be a moral influence, that he should be chosen on the basis of personal qualifications, or character, good habits, moral integrity, should be vigorously denied...
...first Joe's bride, from that charming but shiftless Joe's early death in Westlake, through long years of pitying herself, loving little Joe, resolving to paint again but never doing it, running everywhere to take small presents and repeat clichés (a whole encyclopedia of them), Kate is forever and ever to blush unseen, to live unknowing and to be almost happy -Tomorrow Morning-through...
...satisfaction has nothing to do with the case--the mountain did come to Mohamet. Time was when the complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...very accurate in giving things their right names. To live up to this policy, would it not be advisable to call from now on the former "Roman Catholic Church" just the "Catholic Church," which, after all, is its right name. I beg to refer you to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIII, Roman Catholic...
...sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...