Fillmore, Millard
Millard (1800-1874), the thirteenth president of the United States . He was born at Summer Hill, New York , Feb. 7,1800, and died at Buffalo, March 8, 1874. In 1821 he began the practice of law in the city of Buffalo. Later he was sent to the state legislature, and in 1832 was elected to Congress. He became a prominent leader of the New York Whigs. In 1848 he was nominated by his party and elected to the vice-presidency of the United States. By the death of President Taylor, July 9, 1850, Fillmore became president. His administration was a respectable one. His secretary of state , Daniel Webster, adopted a resolute foreign policy. See Presidents
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Film
a transparent, flexible substance used as a substitute for glass plates for portable photographic work. It consists of a strip of celluloid which is treated with a sensitized coating, the same as is used on plates. See PHOTOG RAPHY.
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Filter Bed
a settling pond whose bottom is a filter. It may consist of a reservoir five feet deep, with a paved bottom covered with open-jointed tubular drains leading into a central conduit. The drains are covered with a layer of gravel, and a top layer of sand. The water is delivered upon the surface uniformly, and the rate of subsidence is about six inches an hour. The more rapid the rate (other things being equal) the less effective the operation.
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Finance
the art of managing money matters, the person who professes Fithis art being called a financier. nances, in the plural, is often used for money itself, but still with a reference to the purpose to which it is to be applied, as where the finances of a country are said to have improved or fallen off. It is used in the United States as in England, rather in a political and economic sense than officially; but in France there have been, from time to time, comptrollersgeneral of finances, councils of finances, bureaus of finances, etc., and at the present time, Minister of Finances.
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Finances
UNITED STATES. See UNITED STATES, section FINANCE.
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Finck
HENRY THEOPHILUS, an American musical critic; born in Bethel, Mo., Sept. 22, 1854. He was graduated at Harvard in 1876; and from 1878 to 1881 studied physiological psychology at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He was musical critic of the New York "Evening Nation. Post," and a contributor to the " " His works include: "Wagner and Other Musicians" (1887); "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty" (1887); "The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour" (1890); "Chopin, and Other Musical Essays," "Lotos Time in Japan" (1895); "Spain and Morocco"; "Paderewski"; "Primitive Love" (1899); "Songs and Song Writers" (1900); "Eduard Grieg" (1905); "Massenet" Strauss" (1917). (1910); "Henry
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Findlay
a city and county-seat of Hancock co., O.; on the Toledo and Ohio Central, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads; 44 miles S. of Toledo. It is in the heart of the oil and gas fields of Ohio. It contains Findlay College, electric lights, electric railroads, several banks, and numerous daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. In the vicinity are rich beds of clay and vast deposits of gravel and sand. There are manufactories of glass, pressed bricks, furniture, wooden implements, nails, and an oil refinery, machine shops, foundries, extensive potteries, and rolling mills. Pop. (1910) 14,858; (1920) 17,021.
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Findlay College
a coeducational institution in Findlay, O.; founded in 1882 under the auspices of the Church of God; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 19; students, 535. President, W. I . H. Guyer, A. M., D. D.
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Fine-art Moulding
This branch includes moulding of statuary, groups, figures, busts, etc., in bronze by the cire perdue and other processes common to the art, besides the general work connected with clay and wax modelling, taking plaster and wax casts, etc. See MODELLING; PLASTER-CAST; STATUARY-FOUNDING. Finery-furnace--also called a refinery--consists of a rectangular hearth formed by the junction of four troughs, through which cold water circulates to prevent them from fusing. A bottom is formed within the troughs with prepared sand, with a droop towards the tap-hole. The blast enters the hearth through tuyeres which incline at an angle of about 28 deg. Above the hearth is a chimney about 17 feet high, built on four pillars in order that the air may have free access to the fire on all sides. The tap-hole is at the lower end of the hearth, and through it the metal and slag run out on plates, where it is at once cooled by copious streams of water. This sudden cooling of the molten mass causes the carbon to combine chemically and produces a silvery-white metal. This is the preliminary process before puddling the iron in the reverberatory furnace. See MALLEABLE IRON; PUDDLING-FURNACE.
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Fingal
a personage celebrated in the poems of Ossian, who was his son. He was Prince of Morven, a province of ancient Caledonia, and struggled against the power of the Romans, who were in his time the rulers of England. He also undertook warlike expeditions to the Orkneys, Ireland, and even Sweden, and was a prince of a highly chivalric character. Lived in the 3d century.
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Finger-piece
A tongue or narrow strip attached to the sweep-board by the loam-moulder, when he forms a perfectly true loam-bed on the brickwork, on which to rest a bracket or any other piece of pattern which is to form a part of the finished casting. The moulder marks his true depth by means of a square held against the spindle; and the finger-piece may then be screwed fast and true to the line. This is very superior practice to the common one of attempting to bed such work on soft loam, as, after the bed has been struck, it may be made firm almost immediately with a charcoal fire in an old riddle or lamp. See LOAM-MOULDING; SPINDLE; SWEEP; LAMP.
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Fingitas
The tradition concerning this stone is remarkable. It is described as quite transparent and hard like marble. It is related that a certain king built a temple of it which needed no windows, the light being admitted into it as if it had been all open to the day.
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