Word: encyclopedias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Germany's leading encyclopedia, Brockhaus, demonstrated last week that it was keeping pace with changing times...
...Said the encyclopedia's 1937 edition: "Naziism is an attitude towards life. . . . Naziism does not regard people as the sum of individual citizens but as a community bound by blood ties. . . . The foremost principle of Naziism is the Führerprinzip. This means victory over the parliamentary system and over majority rule in all spheres of life and consolidation of all politically and productively superior forces of the nation. . . . Naziism intends to bring about the final rebirth of the nation and to safeguard the continuation of existence of the Reich, in the definite belief in its historic mission...
After graduation, he joined the editorial staff of an encyclopedia where he developed the card-file memory and catch-all curiosity that are often watermarks of the great essayists. Shifting to the New York Evening Post as editorial writer and columnist, Strunsky became editor of its editorial page by 1920. When Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought the paper and started telegraphing editorials 'from Philadelphia, Strunsky "stepped into the subway one day and came on uptown" to the Times...
...youngster's moth first consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turned to the New England Museum of Natural History, who suggested the University Museum...
...Soviet State Publishing House put out Volume One of a projected Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Its title page listed Shmidt as chief of a 14-man board of editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume followed volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling...