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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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Rogue – Rosaniline

Rogue

an idle, slothful, inactive person; in the legal sense, a vagrant; a vagabond; a sturdy beggar. A knave; derness or endearment for one who is mischievous or frolicsome; as, a wicked cheat; a trickster. A name of slight tenderness or endearment for one who is

Rohan

HENRI DE, a French Protrogue (in irony).

Rollins

WALTER HUNTINGTON, an American educator, born in Newton, Mass., in 1869. He was educated at Dartmouth and at the Andover Theological Seminary. Ordained a congregational minister in 1898, he served as pastor in various churches, at Blackstone, Mass., and at Wilmington and Waterloo, Ia., until 1914, in which year he became president of Fairmount College, Wichita, Kan.

Roman Cement

a dark-colored hydraulic cement, which hardens very quickly and is very durable. The true Roman cement is a compound of pozzuolana and lime ground to an impalpable powder and mixed with water when used. Other cements bearing the same name are made of different ingredients.

Romansch

ROMANSH, or ROU- MANSCH, a dialect spoken in the Grisons of Switzerland. It is based on or corrupted from the Latin.

Rome

AMERICAN COLLEGE IN, a ers Hughes of New York and Archbishop

Rona

an island with a lighthouse in the Inner Hebrides, between Skye and the mainland of Scotland, 4% miles long, 1 broad. It is extremely barren and of unattractive aspect. Also the name of a small island with remains of an ancient oratory, 44 miles N. E. of the Butt of Lewis.

Roof of the World

the Pamirs; an extensive table-land of Central Asia, so named by its natives. A part of the plateau is said to be 15,000 feet above the sea.

Roosevelt

QUENTIN, an American aviator, youngest son of Theodore

Roraima

a celebrated mountain in South America, where the boundaries of British Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil meet, 8,580 feet high, flat-topped, with steep, rocky sides, rendering the summit almost inaccessible.

Rosamond

commonly called FAIR

Rosaniline

in chemistry, H2N-C6H4>C<一 C20H19N3H2N C6H4 ROSCOE

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