Span – Speyer
Span
a measure of length, being the distance between the tips of the thumb and little finger when the fingers are expanded to their fullest extent. This space averages averages about 9 inches, which accordingly is the fixed measure given to the span.
Spar
in mineralogy, a term employed to include a great number of crystallized, earthy, and some metallic substances, which easily break into rhomboidal, cubical, or laminated fragments with polished surfaces, but without regard to the ingredients of which they are composed. Among miners the term spar is frequently used alone to express any bright crystalline substance.
Sparks
EDWIN ERLE, an American educator, born in Licking co., Ohio, in 1860. He was educated at Ohio State University, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, receiving from the latter in-
Spartel
CAPE, a promontory at
Spears
JOHN RANDOLPH with fish and other bones, and their fighting spears have sometimes poisoned tips.
Spearmint
or SPIREMINT, in serrate botany, a mint, Mentha viridis, with oblong, lanceolate, sub-acute, leaves, and slender spikes of flowers.
Found in watery places. It is used in cookery as a sauce, and yields an aromatic and carminative oil, oil of spearmint.
Spectrum Analysis
in physics and chemistry, the determination of the chemical composition, the physical condition, or both, of any body by the spectrum of the light which it emits or suffers to pass through it, under certain conditions. (See SPECTROSCOPE.)
Spelt
in botany, an inferior kind of wheat, Triticum spleta; called also German wheat. It has a stout, almost solid straw, with strong spikes of grain. It is more hardy than common wheat, and grows in in Bavaria and other parts of Germany, in the south of France, and in elevated situations in Switzerland where common wheat would not ripen.
Spenser
EDMUND judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit of Missouri, from 1897 to 1903. He was a successful candidate for the United States Senate in 1905, and was elected in 1918 to fill the unexpired term of William J. Stone.
Spencer Gulf
an extensive inlet of South Australia; length about 200 miles, breadth at at widest about 90 miles, and at inner extremity about 3 miles.
Sperm Oil
the oil of the spermaceti whale, which is separated from the spermaceti and the blubber (see SPERM- ACETI). This kind of oil is much purer than train oil, and burns away without leaving any charcoal on the wicks of lamps. In composition it differs but slightly from common whale oil.
Speyer
JAMES financial and industrial organizations.
He presented to the Teachers College of the Columbia University the Speyer School in 1902, and was trustee of Columbia and a director of several other educational and philanthropic institutions.