These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mother Hubbard, Motherwell, Motif.
in nursery lore, the heroine of a famous story in rhyme, beginning, Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone. The name Mother Hubbard is taken doubtless from Edmund Spenser's poem, entitled Mother Hubberd's Tale, published in Complaints, 1591. It is a satirical fable written in the style of Chaucer.
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in zoölogy and commerce, the internal layer of oyster and other nacreous or pearly shells. In entomology, a moth of the family Botydæ.
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a city of Scotland in Lanarkshire, 12 miles S. E. of Glasgow. It has important iron and steel works, and there are large deposits of coal in the neighborhood. It has many important industrial establishments. Pop. about 40,000.
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a musical term meaning the principal theme on which the movement of a musical composition is constructed, and which, during the movement, is constantly appearing in one or other of the parts, either complete or modified.
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LAWS OF, three principles or axioms which were laid down by Sir Isaac Newton: (1) If a body be started in motion, and if no force act upon it, that body will continue in motion in the same direction, and with the same velocity. Of course this cannot be directly proved by observation, no one being able to start a body in a portion of the universe free from other bodies which will attract it, and if he could start it on in a vacant space, he could not watch its subsequent progress through infinite space and eternity. But the length of time during which tops will spin or finely mounted pendulums will go in the exhausted receiver of an air pump, can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing the truth of the first law of motion. (2) Change of motion is proportioned to the acting force, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts. (3) To every action there is always an equal and contrary reaction; or, the mutual actions of any two bodies are always equal and oppositely directed in the same straight line.
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a movement. In art, the change of place or position which from certain attitudes a figure seems to be making. In law, an application made to a court of justice by the parties to an action or their counsel, to obtain some rule of order of court necessary to the progress of the action. In music: (1) The movement of a single part with reference to intervals taken by it. Conjunct motion takes place when the sounds move by single degrees of the scale, e. g., C, D, E, F; disjunct motion is when they move by skips, e. g., C, F, D, G. (2) The movement of two or more parts with relation to each other. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction either by single degrees or by skips; contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions; oblique motion is when one part remains stationary while another moves. In watches and clocks, the train of wheels immediately concerned in the moving of the hands. Organic molecular motion, a kind of motion occurring in nearly all the internal processes in organic bodies. It must exist to produce absorption, secretion, etc.
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a method employed by exponents of some of the many efficiency systems, now in existence, in which the motions which a worker makes in performing a routine operation are recorded and studied. A motion study of a process is usually made in conjunction with a time study of the same process. After the motions of several operatives doing the same work are recorded, a study is made and a process which is theoretically the best way of performing the given task is designed and given to the worker to follow. The early studies were made by means of a split second stop-watch, and a recording board. The modern method is to use a high-speed motion-picture camera, and include a large second-indicating clock in the picture. When the film is slowly projected, it gives a complete and easily consulted record of the process. While great improvements in the methods of doing many processes have been made as a result of motion study, because of the fact that an effort is sometimes made to standardize the human factor, it is a dangerous thing in inexperienced hands, and the ill-advised use of the stop-watch has undoubtedly been the cause of many labor disputes. an
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The wheels of a watch or clock which cause the hour hand to travel one-twelfth as fast as the minute hand.
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JOHN LOTHROP, American historian; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814; was educated at Harvard University and Göttingen, Germany; published ed two novels called "Morton's Hope" (1839) and "Merry Mount" (1849). Entered political life as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He published, after 10 years' labor, "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic" in 1856; "History of the United Netherlands" (1860-1865); and the "Life and Death of John of Barneveld" (1874). He was minister from the United States to Austria in 1861-1867, and to Great Britain in 1869-1870. He died in Dorchester, England, May 29, 1877.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) ROBERT RUSSA, American educator; born in Virginia, Aug. 26, 1867. Graduated at Hampton Institute, 1890: Officer of Hampton Institute, 1890-1915. Succeeded Booker T. Washington to the presidency of Tuskegee Institute, Dec. 20, 1915. Secretary Negro School Fund Board since 1908. President of the Negro Organization since Society 1912. Trustee Meigs, Ala., People's le's Village School, Mt. and of the Home for Colored Girls, Peake, Va. Chairman of the executive committee of the National Negro Business Men's League, 1917. Major of the Hampton Battalion for 10 years. Author "Racial Good Will" (1916).
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