Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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or PROSOPOPEIA, in rhetoric, a figure by which things are represented as persons, or inanimate objects as animate beings, or by which an absent person is represented as speaksonification. a ing, or a deceased person as alive and present. It is more extensive than per- PROSSNITZ, town in Moravia, Czecho-Slovakia, on the Rumza, 12 miles S. W. of Olmütz. Buildings include town hall, large grain market, fine church and schools. Is center of prosperous and fruitful region. Its indus- PROSTATE GLAND 360 PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION tries include wool, cotton, linen, liquors, tools, and geese breeding. Pop. about 35,000.

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