These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Lobbyists, Lobelia, Lobos Islands.
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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a beautiful oval lake of Kinross-shire, Scotland, 23 miles N. N. W. of Edinburgh. Lying 353 feet above sea-level, and engirt by Benarty (1,167 feet), the West Lomond hil (1,713), and other hills, it measures 35% miles by 2; discharges by the Leven, flowing 16 miles E. to the Firth of Forth; is 10 to 90 feet deep; and has an area of 3,406 acres, drainage operations having reduced its size by one-fourth in 1826-1836. Of seven islands, the largest are sandy, treeless St. Serf's Inch, an early seat of the Culdees, and Castle Island, with the 14th-century keep of a castle which in 1567-1568 was for 10 months the prison of Mary, Queen of Scots. Since 1633 and earlier the loch has been famous for its delicate pinkfleshed trout, and since 1856 for its flyfishing.
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DAVID ROSS, pseudonym PETROLEUM V. NASBY, an American humorist; born in Vestal, Broome co., N. Y., Sept. 20; 1833. He learned the trade of printer. He took charge of the Toledo "Blade" in 1865, and at once became popular as a humorous writer and later as a lecturer. He began his "Nasby" letters in 1860 and continued them throughout the war. They were coltect by profession and lected and published in book form in 1868, under the title of "Swingin' Round was secretary of the British Architects. the Circle" and "Letters from Confederit wrote many novels X-Roads." He died in Toledo, O., Feb. ceived by the critics 15, 1888. tecta. In popular with the public
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JOHN, an English philosonovels whi to attain publicity critics but pher; born in Wrington, in Somerset- Marcus Ordeyne " in the public. shire, in 1632. He was educated at followed in the next licity wad Westminster and Christchurch College, known book, " The Oxford. In 1666 he was introduced to yne in 1 This was followed by The next ye Lord Ashley, afterward Earl of Shaftes- " Simon the Jester, " "The Beloi bury, and when in 1672, Lord Shaftesbury was appointed lord-chancellor, he ris, " 1913; " The 1914; " Jaffery, " 1915. wed by "S ester," 191 made Locke secretary of presentations, and at a later the most widely read The Fort period, secretary to the Board of Trade. On his patron retirnovelists. 1915. y read of ing to Holland, to avoid a state prosecu- LOCKER - LAMPSON tion, Locke accompanied him. The an English versifier; English envoy demanded Locke of the served some years as MPSON, Admiralty office, and sifier; bor widely known as a ars as préc bright and clever me, and m " London Lyrics " ( as a write are " Lyra Elegantiarum ( er society " Patch - work " ( 1879) 8" (1857) ried a daughter of the who died in 1872; and ter of Sir Curtis added the name of and in Eleanor, his daughter Lampse riage, in 1878 married of Lamp He died May 30, 1895. ighter be arried L
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David Ross (1833-1888), an American satirist and humorist. He learned the printer's trade and later became owner and editor of the Toledo Blade. In 1865 he published in this paper a series of letters over the name of Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby. These letters upheld the policy of Lincoln and influenced public opinion to considerable extent during the Civil War. Later Locke made President Johnson the object of his satire. The Nasby letters were collected in book form under the title, Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of Yours Truly, Ekkoes from Kentucky, and Struggles--Social, Financial, and Political--of P. V. Nasby. Locke also wrote Hannah Jane and The Moral History of America's Life Struggle.
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lok'art, John Gibson (1794-1854), an Edinburgh writer. He was a frequent contributor to Blackwoods, and became editor of the Quarterly Review. He married a daughter of Sir Walter Scott. His Life of Scott ranks with Boswell's Johnson.
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The amount the escape tooth overlaps the pallet at the time it leaves the impulse face. The part where the escape tooth strikes the pallet.
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a city and county-seat of Niagara co., N. Y., on the Erie Canal and the New York Central railroad; 25 miles N. N. E. of Buffalo. The 10 massive locks of the canal, which here makes a descent of 66 feet, give name to the town. The canal affords great waterpower, which is utilized in a large number of flour and lumber mills, machine shops, foundries, cotton and woolen mills , and other establishments some of which are of great extent. The canal here passes through a deep cut several miles in length, excavated in the solid rock . The city is the trade center for the county, with an annual trade of $5, 000; has churches , public schools, National and other banks, female seminary, and daily and weekly newspapers. Large quantities of Niagara limestone and sandstone are here quarried for building purposes. Pop. (1910 ) 17,970; (1920) 21,308. 55,000,-
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