Word: encyclopedias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form, after a severe strain to his reputation in the Finnish war; they rate Zhdanov just after Molotov, which is very good going for a man who 15 years ago was so little known in Communist politics that he did not even get his name in the Soviet Encyclopedia...
This all too brief history is furnished by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and brings us to the present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
...observe as a footnote, in your . . . issue of Sept. 30, the statement that the Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's oldest continuing publication. This leads me to believe that you have inside information in regard to the discontinuing of the Almanac de Gotha which first appeared in 1764 and of the Annual Register, the first volume of which bears the date...
...TIME, with no inside information on Joseph Stalin's publishing plans (his troops seized the German Almanac's files last February), slipped on the British Register; it is still going strong, and is senior to the Encyclopedia Britannica by ten years...
...just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine...