Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
la'noz, a Spanish name given, especially in Venezuela and Colombia, to the vast grassy plains of the Orinoco. They cover an estimated area of 150,000 square miles. The soil varies from sand to rich loam. Immense tracts supply rich pasturage for herds of cattle. The ranchers are of Spanish descent.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
a province of Chile; between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean; area nearly 8,000 square miles; is extremely fertile, yielding abundant harvests to its inhabitants, who are mostly Germans; capital, Puerto Montt. Pop. (1917) 148,214.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Lloyd George DAVID, resigned as Prime Minister, October, 1922, following a vote of the Unionist members of Parliament to withdraw their support from the Coalition government of which he was the head. (See ENGLAND: ELECTIONS OF 1922.) Lodge HENRY CABOT, re-elected to the HITCHCOCK, GILBERT M., defeated for Senate, 1922, for his sixth term, although by a greatly reduced plurality.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Flat cores, made by simply spreading loam of a stiff nature on a plate in the oven. They may be made any thickness desired, and strengthened by thrusting within the mass a few iron rods. These cakes make excellent covering cores. See LOAM. Loam-mill is any contrivance for mixing well together the ingredients of which loam is composed. The object is not so much to grind to a fine consistency as it is to thoroughly mix the clay and manure with the sand, so that every portion of the loam may be alike open in its nature. If the loam is ground too much by very heavy rollers, the clay becomes too intimately incorporated with the overground sand, the grains of which have been crushed into fine powder, resulting in a pasty mass which, when it yields its water, shrinks on the surface of the mould, leaving cavities and cracks which are difficult to correct, and always leave a map-like appearance on the casting. By retaining as much as possible the original coarseness of the ingredients the shrinkage spoken of is distributed equally throughout the surface, and is not noticed at all. Another evil which attends the use of all over-ground loam is, that, being less porous, the gases generated by the molten metal have greater difficulty in escaping in a legitimate manner, and hence force their way into the mould, creating great commotion, and sometimes carrying off portions of the mould surface, making scabs. See LOAM; VENTING.
Only in The Encyclopedia of Founding
Loam-moulding differs from sand-moulding in that the moulds proper are not contained in flasks, or bedded in the floor, but are constructed in sections composed of rings, plates, and brickwork. Another chief difference is that sand-moulds are simply impressions of a model that is furnished by the pattern-maker, whilst loam-moulds are in some measure the handiwork of the moulder himself, unaided by the pattern-maker in many instances. There are instances where of necessity the operations necessary for the successful construction of a high-class loam-mould must include the three chief systems combined, viz., pattern, strickle, and spindle, with ample opportunity throughout the task for supplementing these systems by a nicety of touch which may be acquired only by constant practice and close application by the most intelligent moulders. See TOUCH; GREEN-SAND MOULDING; DRY-SAND MOULDING.
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a chartered institution, in the United States, which has the authority to execute trusts, to lend money on security, at legal rates of interest, and to issue obligations for money or other property on deposit with it These institutions are not allowed to issue bills to circulate as money, or to loan money to their officers, and are not required to keep lawful money reserves.
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SAINT PAUL DE, chief town of the Portuguese possessions on the W. coast of Africa; on a small bay, 210 miles S. of the mouth of the Bango. It has broad, tree-shaded but dirty streets, several churches, forts (1578), and the residences of the governor and bishop. The harbor is gradually sanding up, so that vessels lie 14 mile from shore to load and unload. Pop. about 16,000.
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Kundrie or Kundry. The Grail Messenger. One would imagine that the holder of such an office would be saint-like, but Christian describes her as "a damsel more hideous than could be pictured outside hell." Wolfram refers to her in his work as "Kundrie la London Sorciére." Kundry in Wagner's music-drama "Parsifal " represents sin.
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
persons who make apa business of attempting to influence the votes of legislators. Lobbyists often work openly and toward desirable ends. To many people, however, the term is in disrepute as suggesting corrupt practices.
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a genus of flowering herbs and half shrubby plants. Both stem and leaves have a milky, acrid juice abounding in rubber. Showy flowers--blue, red, purple, and yellow--are arranged usually in a terminal or raceme. The corolla is irregular and tubular. It is split down one side almost to the base. The stamens are five, arranged in a tube often protruding from the split in the corolla. There are over 200 species. The most conspicuous wild lobelia of North America is the flaming red cardinal flower. The large blue lobelia is valuable in medicine. Indian tobacco, with an inflated calyx, is a powerful emetic. Kalm's lobelia is a slender plant found in bogs. The common delicate blue garden lobelia comes from the Cape of Good Hope . Other lobelias in favor with florists are from Texas, Chile, and Mexico.
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two small groups of rocky islands, about 12 miles off the coast of Peru, famous for the great quantity of guano which they produced. well-known decapod,
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the right of each locality of a State, such as each county, township, or city, to determine for itself whether or not some particular measure of legislation shall be enforced therein, applied more especially as to whether the liquor traffic shall be licensed and carried on. Its utility ceased on the passage of the Prohibition Amendment in 1919.
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the hero of a popular ballad by Walter Scott. It is introduced as Lady Heron's song in the fifth canto of Marmion: Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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