Osborn (III)
HENRY STAFFORD, an American educator; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 17, 17, 1823; graduated University of Pennsylvania in 1841, Union Theological Seminary 1846. He held several pastorates and was Professor of Mining and Metallurgy in Lafayette College in 1866-1870; and Miami University till 1873, when he devoted himself to elaborating his surveys of noted places in Biblical history, and preparing a set of maps of the Holy Land that have become standards. Among his publications are: "Palestine, Past and Present" (1855); "Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States" (1870); "Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries" (1885); "Biblical History and Geography" (1888); etc. He died in New York City, Feb. 2, 1894.
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Osborne
THOMAS MOTT. An American penologist and manufacturer, born in 1859, and a graduate of the class of '84 at Harvard. Upon entering business he became president of the Auburn Publishing Company and was associated in an official capacity with many other firms. At his birthplace, Auburn, N. Y. he took an active interest in politics, being mayor of the city from 1903-1905. His interest at this time was aroused by conditions in prisons and he became a member of the National Committee on Prison Reform. In 1913 he had himself committed to the Auburn State Prison the better to study the conditions of the prisoners. From 1914-1916 he was warden of Sing Sing prison, where his humane work attracted national attention.
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Osborne (II)
WILLIAM HAMILTON, an American lawyer and writer, born at Newark, N. J., in 1873. He was a graduate of the common schools and studied law at the New York Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1894. He practiced in New York and New Jersey. He wrote "The Red Mouse" (1909); "The Running Fight" (1910); "How to Make Your Will" (1917). He also contributed to many magazines.
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Osborne Series
a series of beds of Oligocene age, found at or near Osborne, in the Isle of Wight . They were deposited in fresh and brackish water. There are, of animals, peculiar species of Paludina, Melania, Melanopsis, and Cypris, and of plants, Chara. One bed is the Nettlestone Grit, near Ryde, which is a freestone much used for building. Called also the St. Helen's series.
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Osbourne
LLOYD, an American author, born in San Francisco, Cal., 1868; son of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who afterward married Robert Louis Stevenson. Educated in private schools and University of Edinburgh. Was United States vice-consul at Samoa in 1897. Among his best known books are: "The Wrong Box" (with Robert Louis Stevenson) (1889); "The Queen vs. Billy" (1900); "The Motor Maniacs" (1905); "A Person of Some Importance" (1911); and, with Austin Strong wrote "The Exile," which was played by Martin Harvey.
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Oscillating Pendulum
A pendulum that moves backward and forward whose lower extremity traces an arc. This term is used to distinguish an ordinary pendulum (which is an oscillating pendulum), from a conical or torsion pendulum. Fig. 247 is an oscillating pendulum and its path is denoted by the dotted lines.
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Oscillation
the vibration of reciprocal ascent and descent of a pendulous body. The problem of oscillation, in its widest sense, includes most of those which occur optics, etc. To their average motions, th in astronomy, motions, the moon and planets_add small oscillations about their mean places; the tides consists of oscillations of the ocean, etc. In general language, however, the problem of oscillation refers only to the purely theoretical part of the problem of the pendulum.
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Oshima
a designation given to about 20 different localities in Japan. The most important of this name is an island about 100 miles long, reaching toward the Bonin Islands. It has a population of about 5,000. The chief industry is fishing. The name is also given to another island of the Luchu archipelago. This is about 34 miles long and 17 miles wide.
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Oshkosh
a city and county-seat of Winnebago co., Wis., on both sides of the Fox river, and on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroads. Here are the court house, city hall, United States government building, public library, high school, School of the Deaf and Dumb, State Normal School, County Hospital for the Incurable Insane, the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, street railroad and electric light plant, waterworks, National and state banks, parks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large lumbering industry, manufactories of carriages and wagons, machinery, tobacand flour, and meat packing plants. co Pop. (1910) 33,062; (1920) 33,162.
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Osier
a popular name of several willows used in basketry. The shoots must be long, pliant, and tough. See Willow
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Osier
in botany, salix viminalis, a willow with linear lanceolate acuminate leaves, reticulate above and silky beneath; golden yellow, sessile catkins opening before the leaves, etc., and tomentose capsules. Cultivated in osier beds, its long pliable shoots being used for wickerwork basket making.
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Oskaloosa
a city and county-seat of Mahaska co., Ia.; between Des Moines and Keokuk rivers, and on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the Burlington Route, and the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads; 62 miles S. E. of Des Moines. It contains Oskaloosa College (Christian), Penn College (Friends), a business college, preparatory and normal schools Is,, high school, public library, electric lights, National and state banks, papers. It is in a rich coal, iron, limeand a number of daily and weekly newsstone, and fire clay region, and has manufactories of iron and brass goods, iron furnaces, vitrified brick works, woolen goods and flour mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,466; (1920) 9,427.
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Osler
SIR WILLIAM. Physician and author. He was born in 1849 at Bondhead, Ontario, Canada, and graduated as M.D. from McGill University, Montreal, in 1872, after studying also in England, Germany, and Austria. On returning from abroad he taught pathology at McGill, and in 1884 was named professor of clinical medicine at Pennsylvania University and five years later of medicine at Johns Hopkins. In 1905 he went to live in England, and after six years' residence there was made a baronet, having lectured at Oxford and at St. George's Hospital, London. Osler was a voluminous essayist and wrote much on cancer, chorea, blood platelets, displaying much originality. He gained considerable notoriety by putting forty as almost the terminus to the age of human usefulness, but his extravagance on the one side was balanced by contributions in his special field on the other. During the World War he presided SIR WILLIAM OSLER over the medical departments of the British forces, and organized several medical units. His works include: " Histology Notes"; "Principles and Practice of Medicine"; "Cerebral Palsies of Children"; "Science and Immortality"; "Counsel and Ideals"; "An Alabama Student"; "A Way of Life." He died in 1919. OSMAN. See OTHMAN.
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