These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hoosac Tunnel, Hoove, Hoover.
a double-track railway tunnel through the Hoosac Mountain in northwestern Massachusetts. It is on the route from Boston to Troy. Its eastern entrance is 137 miles from Boston. The tunnel is nearly five miles long, the longest in the United States . It was seventeen years in building, and cost $13,000,000. The circulation is improved by a ventilation shaft near the middle. This shaft, over 1,000 feet in depth, acts like a tall chimney. See Tunnel
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a disease in cattle, caused by eating too much green food, which inflates the stomach with gas.
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HERBERT CLARK, an American public official and philanthroat West Branch, Iowa, in pist. Born. 1874; he attended Leland Stanford Unied in 1895. versity, where he graduated Learning mining engineering in California, he set out upon his career as a prospector which carried him to China, Russia, and finally to England. He had already acquired a considerable fortune when the World War broke out in 1914. He took charge of the work for Belgian Relief and became chairman of the Committee for the Relief of Belgium. His energy and organizing ability wrought a wonderful work in feeding and clothing a whole people who were practically destitute. When America entered the war President Wilson appointed him food controller, and by his application, energy, and foresight the European allies were fed and the prices of foodstuffs kept within reasonable limits. His marvelous work in these two offices made him a formidable, though unsuccessful, candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920. He continued his work of feeding the destitute peoples of central Europe, more especially the children, during 1919, 1920, and 1921. He became Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet of President Harding on March 4, 1921.
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in botany, Humulus lupulus, the only known species of the genus Humulus. The root, which is perennial, annually sends forth long, weak, rough, twining stems. The leaves somewhat resemble those of the vine, but are rougher. It has an aromatic od odor, sent forth by glands containing a resinous secretion. The hop is indigenous in England, but grows also in the United States, in Belgium, and Bavaria. Bryonia dioica is sometimes called wild hop. The native hop of Australia is (1) Dodonœa, the seed vessels of which are there used in the manufacture of beer; (2) Daviesia lætifolia. Hops are boiled with the wort in brewing beer. They impart a bitter taste and aromatic flavor, and prevent fermentation from being too rapid. In pharmacy lupulus is the designation of hop. The dried catkins of the female plant of H. lupulus are from the common hops. They are used to prepare infusion of hop, tincture of hop, and extract of hop. HOP CLOVER (Trifolium procumbens), a plant of the order Leguminosæ, distinguished from other species of clover by its bunch of yellow flowers.
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or TOOTH-LEGGED BEETLE, a very small coleopterous itu sect, not quite one-tenth of an inch long, which often does much mischief in hop plantations in spring, devouring the tender tops of the young shoots. It is of the same genus as the turnip fly, so destructive to turnips.
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an American shrub of the rue family (Rutacea), also called shrubby trefoil, is planted as an ornamental plant. Its fruit is intensely bitter, and is a poor substitute for hops.
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a form of caterpillar. In June, July, and August, the leaves of the hop-vine are often devoured by these active, slender, grass-green caterpillars, with but four pairs of prop-legs. They may be shaken off and the vines saved by daily spraying with whale-oil soapsuds or kerosene emulsion.
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a coeducational institution in Holland, Mich.; founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Reformed Church in America; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 18; students, 335, president, E. D. Dimnent.
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a diamond supposed to have been the property of Louis XIV., reduced from 67½ carats to 444 carats; now owned by Mrs. McLean, of Washington, D. C. The stone, which disappeared during the French Revolution, was purchased in 1830 by an English banker named Hope and was finally brought to America in 1909. It was probably reduced to disguise it, and is now worth about $200,000.
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A socialistic and religious community founded in 1842 near Milford in Massachusetts, by the Rev. Adin Ballon. In 1850 various spirit manifestations made their appearance in the Community, while on the death of its founder in 1852, communications of a spiritualistic cast, purporting to come from him, were received through the hand of a living member of the Community. The little band at Hopedale did a good deal to help the advance of Spiritualism .
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. See Moqui
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Johns, a Baltimore merchant. He was born May 19, 1795, in Anne Arundel. County, Maryland, and died at Baltimore, September 24, 1873. His father was a Quaker farmer. He engaged with his brothers in the wholesale grocery business and amassed a large fortune. In 1847 he withdrew from the trade and engaged in banking and in railroad financiering. During the last year of his life he gave $3,000,000 to found the University that bears his name, and $4,500,000 to establish a free hospital. Baltimore is also indebted to his liberality for a public park. See Peabody
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JOHNS, an American philanthropist; born in Anne Arundel co., parents, Quak- Md., May 19, 1795. His ers, gave him a fair education and the training of a farmer. At the age of 17, however, he went to Baltimore, there became a grocer, and in 1822 founded the house of Hopkins and Brothers. From the grocer's business he retired in 1847 with a large fortune, which he employed in banking and railway operations. In 1873 he gave property prope worth $4,500,000 to found a free hospital; he presented Baltimore with a public park, and he also gave over $3,000,000 to found the Johns Hopkins University in Balti- He died Dec. 24, 1873. more.
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MARK, an American educator; born in Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 4, 1802. He was president of Williams College in 1836-1872, and for 30 years president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Among his works are "Evidences of Christianity"; "The Law of Love, and Love as a Law"; and "An Outline Study of Man." He died in Williamstown, Mass.. June 17, 1887.
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