These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Curator, Curb, Curculio.
in civil law, the guardian of a minor who has attained the age of 14, of persons under various disabilities, or of the estate of deceased or absent persons and insolvents. In learned institutions the person who has charge of the library or collections of natural history, etc., is often called the curator. CURÉ (kü-rā'), the name applied in France to a priest with a cure of souls. Commonly applied to any pastor with spiritual functions.
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An iron casing, in which to ram moulds that are made in loam. They may be whole or in sections, according to size and convenience, and are of great service when the moulds are shallow and it is not desirable to sink a pit. They may be employed in the pit also, in order to limit the amount of sand to be rammed round a mould to the smallest amount possible consistent with safety. By this means much time and labor is saved. Those in common use are simply boiler plate, riveted together if whole, and bolted if in sections. Improved sections are made that lock together with steel pins, so that it becomes the simplest matter possible to alter the diameter to an unlimited extent. The most convenient depth for curbs is from 15 to 18 inches. See PIT; LOAM-MOULDING; RAMMING.
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an ancient town of the Sabines, 25 miles N. E. of Rome, whence the Romans, after the people of Cures united with them, came to be called Quirites.
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in the United States, laws intended to keep young people off the streets after a certain hour at night.
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anciently one of the 30 divisions of the Roman people, which Romulus is said to have established; also the place of assembly for each of these divisions. The comitia curiata was the assembly of the people in curiæ.
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PAPAL, in its stricter sense the authorities which administer the Papal primacy; in its common wider use all the authorities and functionaries forming the Papal court. The different branches of the curia having respect to church government are the sacred congregation of cardinals, the secretariat of state, and the vicariate of Rome, the machinery employed being supplied by the chancery, the dataria, and the camera apostolica. As "supreme judge" in Christendom the Pope acts through special congregations and delegated judges, ju or through the regular tribunals of the rota and segnatura, and the penitenziaria. The institution of the Papal Chapel and the household of the Pope are also classed as departments of the curia; and finally the functionaries maintaining the external relations of the Pope-legates, nuncios, apostolic delegates, etc. Formerly the curia included besides these the mechanism and functions of secular administration.
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MARIE SKLODOWSKA, a French scientist. She was born at Warsaw, 1867, and was educated at the Lycée de Varsovie, and later at the Sorbonne, Faculté des Sciences, Paris. She graduated in physical science, and mathematics and received the degree of Licenciée in both departments, as well as that of Docteur des Sciences. In 1910 she received the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. She has been professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Sèvres and since 1919 has been professor of Radiology at Warsaw. During 1920 it was made known that she had made further discoveries in the direction of the use of radium in the treatment of disease. Her works include: "Recherches sur les propriétés magnétiques des aciers trempés"; "Recherches sur les substances radioactives."
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MARIE S., visited the United States in 1921 to receive a gift of a gram of radium worth $100,000, purchased by American popular subscription.
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PIERRE a French scientist. He was born in Paris in 1859, and received his education in the schools of his native city, showing an early bent toward the study of physics in which he experimented with profitable results. When 36 years old he became professor of physics at the École municipale de chimie et de physique. The investigations of himself and his wife (CURIE, MARIE SKLODOW- SKA, q. v.) in 1898 resulted in the discovery first of polonium and then of radium. This latter discovery brought them worldwide celebrity and they received many prizes and honors. In 1904 M. Curie became professor of physics at the Sorbonne, and in 1905 was elected to the Institute de France. He was run over and killed in a street in Paris in 1906. MME. CURIE
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JOHN PHILPOT, an Irish advocate and orator; born in Newmarket, County Cork, in 1750. In 1783 he obtained a seat in the Irish Parliament as member for Kilbeggan. In debate, Curran, who was one of the few Liberal members then in the House, was usually charged with the duty of replying to opponents; for which important duty his ready speech and cutting retort admirably qualified him. In 1788, he was in favor of the formation of the Irish volunteers; and, in subsequent years, he was constant and eloquent in his appeals to government to adopt a different policy toward Ireland, as that which it was pursuing was likely to drive the people into rebellion. Government gave no heed, and the rebellion of 1798 was the consequence. Curran had retired from Parliament before the Union, of which he was a warm opponent. He was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1806, an office he held till 1813, when he resigned. He died in London in 1817.
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a Grecian raisin, produced by drying the small, sweet, seedless grape of that country. These grape currants are one of the chief crops of Greece and are much in demand by makers of cakes and puddings. Currants of this sort are really Grecian raisins. They get their name from Corinth, the city that sent most of them to market. Corinth has been changed to currant, much as "Worcester" has become "Wooster." See Greece
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Current is spoken of in the foundry in its relation to the flow of metal as it leaves the furnace, or as it flows from the ladle into the mould. It is also applied to the forced stream of molten metal as it issues from the gates and flows over the mould's surface. The current of metal, like all other fluids, is strongest at its source--for which reason there is always the greatest danger of abrasion nearest to the gates or runners; hence special attention should be expended to make such parts of a mould more rigid and refractory than is necessary elsewhere. See GATES; RUNNER; CUTTING; SCABBING.
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