Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
TIME's authority for saying Whitaker Wright poisoned himself in court: Cecil John Charles Street's Lord Reading, Encyclopedia Britannica...
Although the collection is primarily a working one, many treasures of Chinese literature, printing, and bookbinding are to be found among its volumes. Among the most valuable of these recently received are two books are the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed...
Like prosperity, Mark Sullivan's subject is just around the corner. This fourth volume of his monumental encyclopedia of Our Times (1900-1925) brings the story up to 1914, just before the outbreak of the World War. Future historians may praise his industry, value his skill in collating facts, but contemporary readers will enjoy him like" a gigantic family album. The sprightly, numerous illustrations (photographs, cartoons, advertisements- 250 of them in this volume) by themselves would make a book worth poring over...
With much patriotic ado was begun last March the celebration of the 1,500th anniversary of St. Patrick's arrival in Ireland, although some authorities (including the Catholic Encyclopedia) give 433 as the date. In Saul the old sod was turned and blessed for a mighty statue and altar to St. Patrick. Then began preparations for more extensive doings. Planned long ago for June 1932 was the 31st International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church. Like monster church picnics, these gatherings are designed to promote religious solidarity, give the faithful an outing on a large scale. Eucharistic Congresses...