Development
the gradual advance, stage by stage, of animal or vegetable bodies from the embryonic to the perfect state.
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Single-source entries: D (43)
These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Development, Deventer, Devi.
Deventer
a city of Holland, at the junction of the Schepbeek and Yssel rivers. There are several inportant and interesting mediæval buildings, including an early Gothic church, a town hall, and a court house. The industries include carpet and rug factories. There are also manufactures of iron, cigars, rope, and cotton. The city has a large trade in grain and live stock. Pop. about 30,000.
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Devi
in Hindu mythology, "the goddess," or Mahadevi "the great goddess," wife of the god Shiva and daughter of Himavit (that is, the Himalaya Mountains) She is represented as being of two characters, one gentle, the other fierce, and it is under the latter aspect that she is generally worshipped.
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Devil's Bridge
A bridge thrown across the Afon Mynach, near Aberystwyth. The story goes that an old woman who had lost her cow saw it on the opposite side of the chasm to that on which she stood, but knew not how to reach it. At that juncture the Evil One appeared to her in the shape of a monk, and promised to throw a bridge across, if she would give him the first living thing that would pass over it. The old lady agreed, the bridge was completed, and the crafty fiend begged that she would try it. But the old woman had observed his cloven hoof, and knee bent backwards, so she took a crust from her pocket and flung it across the ravine, bidding her little dog go fetch it. The Evil One was outwitted, as he generally is in such tales.
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Devil's Chain
There is a tradition in Switzerland that St. Bernard has the devil chained in some mountains in the neighbourhood of the Abbey of Clairvanx. From this comes the custom, observed by the farmers of the country, of striking three blows with the hammer on the anvil every Monday morning before setting to work. By this means the devil's chain is strengthened, so that he may not escape. Devil 's Girdle, The Witches in mediaeval times were often accused of wearing the Devil's Girdle, probably as a mark of allegiance to the Evil One. Magical girdles were commonly worn, and a modern writer suggests that the magnetic belts advertised at the present day had their origin in this practice.
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Devil's Island
a small rock formation off the coast of French Guiana, belonging to France. The area is about 16 square miles, and the island itself is sandy, dry, and torrid. Here Capt. ALFRED DREYFUS (q. v.) was imprisoned for alleged treason.
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Devil's Lake
a city of North Dakota, the county-seat of Ramsey co. It is on the Great Northern and the Farmers' Grain and Shipping Company's railroads, and on Devil's Lake. The industries include creameries and flour mills. The city has a school for the deaf, a public park, St. Mary's Academy, and a general hospital. Pop. (1910) 5,157; (1920) 5,140.
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Devil's Pillar
There are preserved at Prague three stones of a pillar which the devil brought from Rome to crush a priest, with whom he had made a compact, and to kill him while he said mass. But St. Peter, says the legend, threw the devil and his pillar into the sea three times in succession, which diversion gave the priest time for repentance. The devil was so chagrined that he broke the pillar and saved himself.
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Devil's Punch-Bowl
a small lake of Ireland, near the lakes of Killarney, between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above the sea, supposed to be the crater of an ancient volcano.
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Devil's Sonata
(See Visions .)
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Devil's Wall
in the S. of Germany, a structure which was originally a Roman rampart, intended to protect the Roman settlements on the left bank of the Danube and on the right bank of the Rhine, against the inroads of the Teutonic and other tribes. Remains of it are found from the Danube, in Bavaria, to Bonn on the Rhine.
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Devine
EDWARD THOMAS, an American author and lecturer; born in Union, Ia., in 1867. He graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1887, and took post-graduate courses in the United States and in Germany. He was principal of schools in Iowa for several years, and from 1891 to 1896 was staff lecturer on economics for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. He was secretary of the same organization from 1894 to 1896, and from 1896 to 1912 was general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of New York. He was editor of the "Survey" from 1897 to 1912. From 1905 to 1919 he was professor of social economy at Columbia University and was director of the New York School of Philanthropy from 1904 to 1907. In 1917 and 1918 he was chief of the Bureau of Refugees and Home Relief under the American Red Cross Commission in France. He represented and directed several Red Cross relief expeditions, including San Francisco in 1906 and Dayton, O., in 1913. He was a member of many economic and educational societies. He wrote "Economics" (1899); "The Practice of Charity" (1901). "Social Forces" (1909); "The Normal Life" (1915); "Disabled Soldiers and Sailors" (1919).
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Devonshire
a county of England in the W. part. It has an area of 2,604.9 square miles, of which threefourths are pasture land, or cultivated area. The north coast is steep and rocky. The south coast is lined with cliffs and indented with several bays. The general surface of the county is hilly. There are important agricultural industries and also considerable mining, manufacturing, and fishing. The chief cities are Exeter, the county town, Plymouth and Barnstaple. Population, about 460,000.
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Dewar
SIR JAMES, a British scientist. He was born in Scotland in 1842, and was educated at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University. He became assistant to Lord ord Playfair when Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University and became president of the Chemical Society in 1897. He has made many discoveries in chemistry and has been a member of the Government Explosive Committee. He was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, 1894, and has received medals from scientific societies in many countries. He is F.R.S.; M.A.; LL.D., and p president ent of the British Association. His literary works include: "Collected Papers on Spectroscopy," numerous papers contributed to the proceedings of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the Royal Institution, the British Association, the Chemical Society, etc.
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