Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book for ruminators as the year brought; and The American Thesaurus of Slang ($5), edited by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark, came about as near completely corralling the living, dead and deathless in native idiom as could be humanly expected of one volume. The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music ($3.95) was the most comprehensive book of its kind ever assembled...
...17th-Century Italian Franciscan is rapidly becoming the patron saint for Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...
Boris Shaposhnikov would not have to be a breathing encyclopedia to know that the great decisive land battles of World War II have not yet even been joined. One of them will come this spring...
...encyclopedia, slang comes under the letter S, and it is there that Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) and his seven unwed colleagues get stuck. Potts takes pencil and notebook and sets out to get unstumped. He is lucky; he meets Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck...
Author of many books, isaacs also contributed chapters to anthologies and encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia Britannica...