These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Corrosives, Corrugated Metal, Corry.
in surgery, substances which eat away whatever part of the body they are applied to; such are glacial acetic acid, burned alum, white precipitate of mercury, red precipitate of mercury, butter of antimony, etc.
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metal that has been corrugated to give it increased rigidity and power to resist buckling and collapse. The process is merely an application to metallic substances of the old contrivance of "goffering" or "piping," by means of which frills are stiffened and kept in shape. The metal to be corrugat corrugated is passed between pairs pair of rollers with with ridged surfaces, the ridges ridg of one fitting into the hollows of the other, and the sheets or plates operated on are bent and compressed into the wavy outline of the rolls. Walls and roofs of light and temporary buildings are extensively made of corrugated galvanized ironi. e., sheet-iron first corrugated and subsequently coated with zinc by dipping the sheets into a bath of the liquid metal.
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a city in Pennsylvania, in Erie co., on the Erie and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is an important industrial center, and has steel works, machine shops, flour mills, and manufactures of locomotives, gas engines, furniture, shovels, toys, etc. It has the State Fish Hatchery. There are a handsome high school and other important public buildings. In the vicinity are mineral springs and petroleum wells. Pop. (1910) 5,991; (1920) 7,228.
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a city and county-seat Whatever is worn up to that time of Navarro co., Tex.; on the Houston and Texas Central and other railroads; 180 miles N. E. of Austin. It is a great oil district. The city is the seat of the State Orphans' Home and the Odd Fellows' Widows and Orphans' Home, and has street railways, waterworks, daily and weekly newspapers, three National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,749; (1920) 1.1,356.
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an Italian term given to a leading street or fashionable carriagedrive.
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HIRAM, an American educator; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1828. He became Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1866, and of English language and literature, rhetoric, and oratory in Cornell University in 1870. Among his publications are: a "Hand- Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English" (1871); "An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning" (1886); "Jottings on the Text of Hamlet," "Lectures on the English Language and Literature," "The Aims of Literary Study, "Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton" (1899); etc. He died in 1911.
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GEORGE BRUCE, statesman, was born in New York City, July 26, 1862. He was a general law reporter, private secretary to several public officials, and head master of a school at Hempstead, N. Y. Private secretary to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, 1896-1903; Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1904; Postmaster-General 1905-1907; Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-1909. President of Consolidated Gas Co., New York, after 1909, and a director in numerous corporations.
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kor'tes, the parliament or representative assembly--the congress--of Spain or of Portugal. The Cortes of Spain is an ancient body which has undergone many changes. Under the constitution, proclaimed in 1876, the present cortes consists of two independent houses--the Senate and the Congress. The Senate is composed of wealthy men in their own right--of 100 members appointed for life by the crown and 180 elected members. The Congress includes one member for each 50,000 people. A measure must pass both houses before it can become a law. See Parliament ; Congress
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the states or legislative assemblies of the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, composed of the nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities. They thus correspond in some measure to the British Houses of Parliament.
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ROYAL, an American journalist and art critic, born in New York City. He served as literary editor and art editor of the New York "Tribune," and contributed many articles on art subjects to magazines. He was the author of the lives of Augustus St. Gaudens (1907), and John La Farge (1911), and also edited several works.
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a village and county-seat of Cortland co., N. Y.; on the Tioughnioga river; and the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, and the New York Central railroads; 37 miles S. of Syra- It is a farming and manufacturing cuse. ing trade center, and has several wireworks, foundries, machine shops, and manufactories of carriages, stoves, harness, furniture, cash registers, and steel ware. It is the seat of a State Normal School, and has electric lights and railways, several churches, daily and weekly newspapers, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,504; (1920) 13,294. CORUNA. See CORUNNA.
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Wheels faced with corundum, (emery) or made of a composition of corundum and cement. See Emery Wheels.
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a seaport of Spain, in the province of the same name in Galicia, on the N. W. coast, on a peninsula at the entrance of the bay of Betanzos. It consists of an upper and a lower town, the former built on the E. side of a small peninsula, and the latter on the isthmus connecting the peninsula with the mainland. The harbor, which is well protected, is deep, spacious and safe. Cattle form the chief export. There is a government tobacco factory employing thousands of women and girls. There is a lighthouse, 92 feet high, called the Tower of Hercules, and supposed to be of Roman construction. Corunna was the port of departure of the Spanish Armada (1588), and the scene of the repulse of the French and the death of Sir John Moore (1809). Pop. about 60,000. CORVÉE, an obligation on the tenants or of certain districts to perfinabitants or their lord, such as the maintenance of roads, etc.
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MATTHIAS. See MAT-
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kor'i-don, a shepherd in one of the idyls of Theocritus, and in one of Virgil's eclogues. Hence the name is used in pastoral poetry and elsewhere to designate a shepherd or rustic. Spenser gives the name to a shepherd in the Faerie Queene and again in Colin Clout. Scott gives it to a shoemaker in Count Robert of Paris.
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mastworts; an order of diclinous exogens, alliance Quernales. It consists of trees and shrubs with alternate, simple, exstipulate leaves, often with the veins running straight from the Male flowers midrib to the margin. amentaceous, with 5 to 20 stamens; female having the ovary crowned by the rudiments of an adherent calyx; ovary with two or more cells. Among the genera are carpinus (hornbeam), corylus (hazel), fagus (beech), castanea (chestnut), and quercus (oak). They are found in the temperate parts of the Old and New Worlds. In In the tropics they grow chiefly on mountains.
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