Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student of Latin at the age of eight, McColl had already read a 20-volume encyclopedia by that time, and moved on to reading the Encyclopedia Britannica for relexation...
Maritain has written more than two dozen books, hardly any of them light reading. Together they form almost an encyclopedia of Roman Catholic thought. Nothing irritates Maritain more than to be accused of reaction or medievalism; he insists that his "antimodern" position is actually "ultra-modern...
...children looked all right: Dr. Kanner called them "well-formed, well-developed, rather slender, and attractive." Many were bright, too. A two-year-old boy could identify all the pictures in Compton's Encyclopedia; a three-year-old boy could name all the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the U.S., recite 37 nursery rhymes, rattle off 25 questions & answers in the Presbyterian catechism...
...Awakened at 5:15 a.m. . . . tried to take another dip into oblivion . . . awakened at 7 a.m. . . . went to sleep again . . . Awakened at 8:15 a.m. [with] itching ... head, lots of white dry dandruff . . . must read about it in the Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know...
...born (1886) in Luxembourg, of an old Lorraine family. When Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, his family automatically became German, and Robert was German, technically, until his 33rd birthday. In school, he displayed a redoubtable memory. Said one of his teachers: "That boy will end by editing an encyclopedia...