Erskine
JOHN, an American edu- . cator, born in New York City in 1879 University He graduated from Columbia of in 1900 and was in turn instructor English, assistant professor, and asso- Amherst ciate professor of English at , serving until 1909, when he became English at Columadjunct professor of full bia University. He was appointed several professor in 1916. He wrote volumes of poems and was a frequent literary contributor to magazines on the Camsubjects. He was coeditor of bridge History of American Literature, chair- 1917-1919. In 1918-1919 he was man of the Army Education Commission Forces of the American Expeditionary , director of the and was educational American Expeditionary Forces University at Beaune, France, in 1919.
THOMAS, a Scotch baron; born in Edinburgh, Jan. 21, 1750; became a noted forensic orator and jurist, attaining most of his renown as a pleader in support of the accusations of corruption made against Lord Sandwich; later he added to his success by his defense of Stockdale, Hardy, Thomas Paine, Horne Tooke, and others. He was a member of the House of Commons in 1790-1806. About the latter date he was created Baron Erskine of Restormel, on becoming lord-chancellor. He died near Edinburgh, Nov. 17, 1823.
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Ervine
ST. JOHN GREER, an Irish dramatist and novelist. He was born at Belfast in 1883 and first came into notice in connection with the Abbey Theater, Dublin, which in 1913 produced his one-act play, "The Magnanimous Lover," written by him in 1907. In 1910 he wrote a four-act play, "Mixed Marriage," produced by the Abbey Theater in 1911. Other of his plays are "John Ferguson," played yed with great success in ," New York in 1919, and "Jane Clegg played in New York in 1920. His novels include: “Mrs. Martin's Man," "Alice and a Family," "Changing Winds," and "The Foolish Lovers." He was trooper in the Household Battalion in the World War; after serving as 2d lieutenant, Dublin Fusiliers, was wounded, May, 1918, and invalided home. He wrote a political study, "Sir Edward and Carson and the Ulster Movement," he lectured in the United States in 1920.
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Erymanthus
A lofty mountain in Arcadia on the frontiers of Achaia and Elis, celebrated in mythology as the haunt of the savage Erymanthian boar destroyed by Hercules .
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Erysipelas
a peculiar inflammation of the skin, spreading with great rapidity; the parts affected are of a deep red color, with a diffused swelling tissue and of the underlying cutaneous cellular membrane, and an indisposition action. Erysipelas is to take on healthy the skin divided into: (1) Simple, where only is affected; (2) Phlegmonous, where are the cutaneous and areolar tissues going on both attacked at the same time, death to vesication, then yellowness, and tissue of the skin; death of the areolar may follow, constituting malignant or gangrenous erysipelas; (3) Edematous, a yellowish, dark or sub-cutaneous, of the brown, or red color, occurring about usually in eyelids, scrotum, or legs, . The broken-down dropsical constitutions other first is superficial and sthenic, the asthenic. forms more deep-seated and Some physicians speak highly of poultices of phytolacca leaves, while others recommend topical applications of some constituform of iron in tincture. The restorative. tional treatment is mainly
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Erythraeum Mare
The name originally of the whole expanse of sea between Arabia and Africa on the west, and India on the east, including its two great gulfs (the Red Sea and Persian Gulf).
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Eryx
an ancient city and a mountain in the W. of Sicily, about 2 miles from now The mountain, the sea-coast. Monte San Giuliano, rises direct from On the plain to a height of 2,184 feet. celebrated the summit anciently stood a temple of Venus. All traces of the ancient town of Eryx have now disappeared, and its site is occupied by the modern town of San Giuliano.
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Erzberger
MATTHIAS, German statesman and public official, was born at Buttenhausen, Württemberg, Germany, Sept. 20, 1875. He received an elementary education and entered politics early in life. From 1903 to his death in 1921 he was a member of the German Reichstag, being leader of the progressive Clericals. In October, 1918, he became vice - chancellor of Germany and was the head of the German delegation which signed the armistice terminating 82,282 the World War. In 1919 he was appointed Minister of Finance and by his drastic taxation proposals became the object of bitter attack and villification on the part of the reactionary and capitalist classes of Germany. The agitation against him finally resulted in his murder by reactionary assassins in the Black Forest, August 26, 1921. F Central States the number of farms decreased between 1910 and 1920, as dià also the acreage in most of these States, while the greatest gains took place place in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States. The average size of farms in the United States as a whole increased from 138 to 148 acres, the greatest percentage of gain
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Erzerum
an important town in the Armenian Republic, in lat. lon. 41°20′ 20' E., not far 39° 55′ N. and from the Kara-Su, or W. source of the is situated on a high but Euphrates. It tolerably well cultivated plain, 6,200 , surfeet above the level of the sea rounded by mountains. The climate is cold in winter, but hot and dry in summer. In November, 1901, an earthquake destroyed over 1,000 houses, with a small loss of life. During the World War important operations were carried on around the city. The Russians captured it in February, 1916, following its evacuation by the Turkish garrison. Pop. variously estimated from 50,000 to 100,- 000.
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Erzgebirge
or ORE MOUNTAINS, a chain of European mountains forming a natural boundary between Saxony and Bohemia, nearly 120 miles in length and 25 miles broad. The highest summits, which are on the side of Saxony, rise to 3,800 or 3,900 feet. The mountains are rich in silver, iron, copper, lead, cobalt, arsenic, etc.
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Erzingan
a city of Armenia, formerly capital of a sandjak, in the vilayet of Erzerum, Asiatic Turkey, 86 miles S. E. of Erzerum, a strongly fortified town, situated at an altitude of 3,900 feet, and about a mile from the right bank of the Euphrates, the center of a very fertile plain, where wheat, fruit, ESCALATOR-CLEAT TYPE wines, and cotton are produced in large quantities. Iron and sulphur springs are also abundant in the vicinity. It was the object of a special campaign by the Russian Caucasian Army, which resulted in its capture by the Russians on July 25, 1916. Since the war it has become part of the territory of the new Armenian state. Pop. about 18,000, half being Mohammedans and half Christian Armenians.
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