Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover for background he had plowed his way through 10,000 other volumes, compiled an anthology called The Philosophy of Life...
Among his literary works are numbered his biographies of Edward Roland Sill and Justin Morrill, his editing of Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers, and contributions to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannics...
...wooed her (TIME. Sept. 10). Last week His Royal Highness ordered in London a superb Kashmir sapphire, supported by two oblong diamonds in a platinum setting. ¶ When Scottish journalists dryly observed that Prince George is in fact a commoner, the usual flurry ensued as Englishmen turned to their Encyclopedia Britannica and once more were titillated by this technicality: "The children of the Sovereign, other than his eldest son, though by courtesy 'princes' and 'princesses,' need a royal warrant to raise them de jure above the common herd; and even then, though they be dubbed 'Royal Highness' in their cradles...
...days on the island, talked to the descendants of the mutineers, prowled the storied spots to his heart's content. Though it was near hurricane season he looked forward to as peaceful a passage home, with plenty of leisure to read the MED-to-MUM volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he had brought with him to while away the time. But about 3 a. m. one night of dirty weather they struck the reef of Timoe. Luckily the schooner wedged herself on the coral; they were able to launch a boat, get everyone safely ashore. Next day when...
...Author. Lewis Corey was born in San Francisco, in 1894. Son of an Italian shoemaker, he received only brief, formal education in public and parochial schools. Self-educated, he speaks four languages. He is now an assistant editor of The Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, lives in Sunnyside, L. I., with a Russian wife and an 11-year-old daughter. In 1930 he published his successful The House of Morgan...