Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John S: Lookee here, have you ever spent a winter in Bucksport Point? . . . An' I'd like you to look in the encyclopedia an' you'll see that all but three presidents of these United States have American full beards er whiskers of some kind...
When he was in the White House, Calvin Coolidge was not above cribbing local color verbatim from the office encyclopedia for his minor speeches. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt lifted his Thanksgiving Day proclamation for 1930 from the Protestant Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Last week careful readers of political addresses discovered what looked like another case of plagiarism...
...Encyclopedia Corp...
...enlarged into a major industry. Last week it seemed in the way of becoming one. At Princeton appeared one R. J. Davey, a personable, beknickered youth who had already visited Yale and Harvard seeking testimonials for a service which sells essays, book-reviews, theses and speeches. His firm, Standard Encyclopedia Corp. of Chicago, offers a $69.50 encyclopedia and a "research bureau" for subscribers. According to his Princeton prospects, Salesman Davey frankly explained that the service was not yet in actual operation. He was getting signed testimonials, on college stationery. Would a Princeton man be willing to give one in exchange...
Pelorus Jack lived in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. So great was his fame he is mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica, which calls him "an individual . . . believed to have belonged to" the Grampus griseus species, Risso's dolphin...