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A monarch great and terrible among the infernal powers, according to Wierius. He has three heads, those of a bull, a man, and a ram. Joined to these is the tail of a serpent, the eyes of which burn with fire. He bestrides an enormous bear. He commands forty of the infernal legions, and rules over finesse, ruses and middle courses.
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That part of the vibration of a balance in which it is connected with the train, used only in reference to detached escapements.
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The standard that holds the top pivot of the balance in an upright position. In some of the old English and French full plate watches the balance cock was spread out to cover the entire balance, as shown in Fig. 15, and was sometimes artistically wrought and set with precious stones.
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in European politics, the doctrine that it is the care of all nations to see to it that no one nation becomes too powerful for the rest to handle. The notion is in direct opposition to the theory of a great world power, such as was aimed at by Alexander, and particularly by the " Holy Roman Empire ." The policy of preserving the balance of power began to make itself felt ere the religious wars were brought to a close by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. During the latter part of the Thirty Years' War, the doctrine was leveled openly at the Austrian power. Richelieu, fearing the growing power of the Hapsburgs, sent the armies and the men of Catholic France to aid the Protestants of North Germany. Fear that Napoleon was growing too great for the rest of the world was one of the causes of his downfall. Fear that Russia might disturb the balance of power kept the Russians out of Constantinople, and caused the world to look on complacently when the Russian bear was drubbed so unmercifully by the Japanese. The doctrine that the balance of power should be preserved springs from a deeper source than mere jealousy. It is an assertion of the instinct of self preservation. The doctrine will not down until the nations are federated.
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No matter how careful a person may be, accidents will happen, and the least accident to a compensation balance gives the workman considerable trouble. The Arrick patent balance protector, Fig. 16, is intended for guarding balances from contact with turning tools, polishers and the hand rest, while work is being done upon the pivots. The staff is passed through the hole in the protector, and held in a wire chuck, and the protector is secured to the arms of the balance by two screws. The Bullock protector, shown in Fig. 17, is designed to protect the balance and other wheels from heat while drawing the temper from staff or pinion for the purpose of pivoting.
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See Hair Spring.
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To describe this stone in fewer words than Leonardus has used would be impossible. It is " of a purple or rosy colour, and by some is called the placidus or pleasant. Some think it is the carbuncle diminished in its colour and virtue; just as the virtue of the female differs from that of the male. It is often found that the external part of one and the same stone appears a balasius, and the internal a carbuncle, from whence comes the saying that the balasius is the carbuncle's house. The virtue of the balasius is to overcome and repress vain thoughts and luxury; to reconcile quarrels among friends; and it befriends the human body with a good habit of health. Being bruised and drunk with water, it relieves infirmities in the eyes, and gives help in disorders of the liver; and what Banshee is still more surprising, if you touch the four corners of a house, garden or vineyard, with the balasius, it will preserve them from lightning, tempest, and worms."
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VASCO NUÑEZ DE, & Spanish explorer, Caballeros, in 1475. He accompanied born at Xeres de los Rodrigo de Bastidas in his expedition to the New World, and first settled in Haiti (or, as it was then termed, Hispaniola). Though an adventurer in search of fortune, his great ambition seems to have been to discover another great ocean. He proceeded to the American continent, and there founded a colony. Accompanied by a small band of followers, he began to thread the almost impenetrable began forests of the Isthmus of Darien. At length, after a toilsome and dangerous y, Balboa and his companions journey, approached, on Sept. 25, 1513, the summit of the mountain range, when Balboa , leaving his followers and advancing to the W. declivity, was the to behold the vast unknown ocean, which he named the Pacific. Surrounded by his followers, he walked into it, carrying in his right hand a naked sword, and in his left the banner of Castile, and declared the sea of the South, and all the regions whose shores it bathed, to belong to the crown of Castile and Leon. During his absence, however, a new governor had been appointed to supersede Balboa in Haiti; where, on and dissensions springing up between his return, jealousy them, Balboa, accused of a design to rebel, was beheaded in 1517.
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EMILY GREENE, an American economist, born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., in 1867. She was graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, studied economics in Paris and Berlin, and afterward carried on settlement work in the Denison House in Boston in 1892-1893. She was assistant in economics at Wellesley College in 1896-1897, instructor from 1897 to 1903, associate professor from 1903 to 1913, and professor of political economy and social science from 1913. She was a member of many state commissions on industrial problems and immigration, a member of the City Planning Board of Boston from 1914, and a delegate to the International Congress of Women at The Hague and to several other international congresses. She wrote "Public Assistance of the Poor in France" (1893); "Women at The Hague" (1915); "Approaches to the Great Settlement" (1918); etc.
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