Insolvency
. See Bankruptcy
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Insolvency, Inspector General, Installation.
Inspector General
a name employed to designate a military officer, having various duties in various branches of the service, but whose original responsibility was that of supervision and inspection. The designation is given to all the officers of the inspector general's department, though their service varies greatly. The duties involve the proper inspection of accounts relating to expenditures, the condition of the troops and their equipment, the military posts, arsenals and public works, and general conduct unbecoming in an officer. There are inspectors general of infantry, cavalry, enginee engineers, artillery and other branches of service. In the medical department the inspectors general of hospitals are the head surgeons. In European countries the duties of inspectors general are carried out by the general staff of the army.
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Installation
the act of installing; the act of investing with an office, charge, or rank, with customary ceremonies; as, the installation of a minister or presiding officer of some deliberative or social body; the state of being installed.
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Insterburg
a city of Germany in the Province of East Prussia. It is on the left bank of the Angerap river. Before the World War it had important manufactures of linen, machinery, stoves, fertilizers, etc. It has several old churches, a seminary, and a museum. Pop. about 32,000.
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Institute
a scientific body; a society or body established under certain rules or regulations for the promotion or furtherance of some particular object; a literary or philosophical society or association; in France, applied to the principal society of this kind, formed in 1795 by the union of the four existing royal academies.
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Institute of France
the official name for a group of five learned societies in France which have for their object the encouragement of the liberal arts and the sciences. The five societies comprising the institute are (1) Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; (2) Académie Francaise; (3) Académie des Sciences; (4) Académie des Beaux Arts; (5) Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. The present organization of the Institute dates from the time of Napoleon I. who was himself a proud member of it. Each of the five societies retains its identity, has charge of its own funds and has its own government, while the secretaries, the library, and the valuable collections are common to the five. The Duke d' Aumale in 1886 gave to the institute his château and Chantilly together with his wonderful art collection and library. This is the most treasured possession of the Institute. Members are elected by ballot and there are active, honorary, corresponding, foreign associates. The meeting-place of the Institute is the Mazarin Palace, opposite the Louvre.
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Institute of Politics
a summer forum and round-table established in 1921 at Williams College, Massachusetts, for the general discussion by stunational interest and relationships. The plan originated with President Garfield of Williams, its purpose being the encouragement and promotion of a wider understanding of politics in general and of international affairs in particular. A board of advisers consisting of distinguished publicists and authorities on international law and history is in general control of the institute, whose first gathering took place in July and August of 1921, when courses of lectures were delivered by such distinguished scholars as Viscount Bryce, Count Teleky of Hungary, Signor Tittoni of the Italian Senate, and Baron Korff of Russia. In addition to such lectures, provision is made for round-table conferences in which all the members of the institute may participate, the discussions here being free and at the same time protected. The enrolled membership is made up largely of college teachers of political science, but the attendance of the first session also included Government officials, journalists, and publicists of several nations. At the conclusion of the session it was announced that funds for the maintenance of the institute for three years had been furnished by Mr. Bernard M. Baruch.
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Institution
in civil law, the appointment of a debtor as heir of a testator. Also a Christian educational establishment, with a school and college department, for teaching young Hindus and Mohammedans the religion and science of the West, chiefly through the medium of the English tongue. Chiefly Anglo- Indian.
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Instrument
in law, a document or writing, as the means of giving formal expression to an act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, or proceeding, as a deed, a contract, a writ, etc. In music, any mechanical contrivof sound. The ance for the production tion musical instruments employed are divided into the following classes: Stringed; wind; and pulsatile. The first and second class require no description. The pulsatile or percussion instruments are the kettle-drums, great drum, side drum, triangle, cymbals, and tambourine.
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Instrumentation
the art of using, in composition, the various instruments and combinations of the ORCHES- TRA (q. v.).
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Insufflation
in the Roman Catholic Church, the breathing, by the priest administering baptism, into the face of the recipient of the sacrament, to signify the new spiritual life which is to be breathed into his soul.
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Insulator
in electricity, a nonconductor of electricity so placed as to insulate a body. In thermotics, a nonconductor of heat placed so as to prevent the passage of heat to or from a body.
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Integral Calculus
a branch of mathematics, the converse of the differential calculus. Having a given or known differential, the integral calculus has for its object to find a function such that, being differentiated, it will produce the given differential. Such expression is called the integral of the differential. The operation of finding the primitive function or integral is called integration. Besides the method of finding the inof given differentials, the integral tegrals als calculus is also applied to various branches of mathematics, as well as to almost every branch of natural philosophy and engineering.
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Intellect
that faculty of the human soul or mind by which it receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses or by perception, or other means, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; also the capacity for higher forms of knowledge as distinguished from the power to perceive and imagine. In the plural, wits, senses; as, to be disordered in the intellects.
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