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Robinson told another anecdote about his efforts to get private financial support for Crossroads Africa, which this summer will send 250 students abroad. When he had succeeded in convincing the Encyclopedia Britannica to donate 75 sets for African schools, (worth more than $25,000), he happened to run into a representative from another company. "I figured the Lord wanted me to tell him what Encyclopedia Britannica had done," Robinson said with a broad smile. Sure enough, the second company donated 100 sets...
...original Soviet kid hero of this species was Pavlik Morozov, 12, who has earned immortality in the Soviet Encyclopedia for betraying his father in 1930 during the forced collectivization drive. Two years later, the lad became a Communist martyr when, the story goes, he was assassinated by a band of landowners...
Only two other Americans had been so honored in death by Moscow, both more than 30 years ago: Author John Reed and Labor Organizer Big Bill Haywood. From the Communist point of view, William Foster was far and away the most deserving: for years the Soviet Encyclopedia has accorded Foster nearly a full page. Foster scrabbled up from the Irish slums of Taunton, Mass., to become chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1957. Three times he ran for U.S. President on the Communist Party ticket. Early this year, in failing health, he flew off to Moscow...
Trade Terminology. Most of the terms discussed are available in any dictionary or encyclopedia, but Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable
...From The Complete Home Encyclopedia of Domestic Life and Affairs...