Word: encyclopedia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thumbing through the first volumes of the big new encyclopedia one evening at the Trianon, France's King Louis XV showed frank bewilderment. His ministers had told him that the work was subversive, and the King had duly ordered its confiscation. But-as Voltaire tells the story-the King read all about the rights of the crown and promptly began to question his own decision. "Upon my word," cried His Majesty to Madame de Pompadour, "I can't tell why they spoke so ill of this book...
Power of Prayer. With the help of a radio encyclopedia and a few friends, Hemingway set up a one-tube transmitter that ran on a storage battery. The antenna was made of bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...
...kept in touch with city and Army engineers and with Red Cross headquarters, dug up accounts of previous floods from the morgue. By Saturday afternoon, when City Editor Ralph Eades gave him time off to finish the first "takes" of his TIME report, he was a walking, if tired, encyclopedia on his subject, the costliest flood in U.S. history. He had a wealth of detail, and something that one or two reporters splashing around in the rapidly rising water could not have pulled together fast enough-a broad knowledge of the flood from the time it started weeks before...
...Fund for Adult Education ($3,000,000), headed by C. Scott Fletcher, former president of Encyclopedia Britannica Films, which will support nonacademic projects outside the school system -educational movies, radio and TV programs, community discussion groups. The fund's purpose, as defined by Hoffman: "[To] assist persons to develop a satisfactory personal philosophy and sense of values ... to grow in ability to analyze problems and arrive at thoughtful conclusions...
Those people whose bookcases are just seven thirty-seconds of an inch too long for the complete Encyclopedia Britannica can now fill up the space with a closely-printed, unbound little book-put out by the Un-American Activities Committee. This book lists in 156 unattractive pages all the organizations ever cited as Communist or Communist front by any or all of nine "official Government agencies--on Federal, State, and municipal levels...