These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Pole Star, Polecat, Polemics.
Polaris, a bright star at Minor, and the tip of the tail of Ursa sa in a line with the pointers Merak and Dubhe, the two stars constituting the front of the plowlike figure in Ursa Sheen Monastery and Magdalen College, Major. There is no corresponding star in the Southern Hemisphere. The pole star is a convenient one for observing to determine the latitude and also the azimuthal error of any transit instrument.
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the putorius fœtidus, one of the Mustelinæ, akin to the marten, but with a broader head, a blunter snout, and a much shorter tail. The shorter hairs are yellow and woolly, the longer ger ones black or brownish black and shining. Two glands near the root of the tail emit a highly offensive smell. It makes immense havoc in poultry yards. It also devours many eggs.
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the art or practice of controversy or disputation; controversy; controversial writings, especially on mat ters of divinity or theology.
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a genus of Hemerocalleæ; the peduncle is two or three feet long, and has on its summit many cream colored flowers. P. tuberosa (tuberose), a native of Mexico and South America, much cultivated in gardens in India, China, and Java, is deliciously fragrant, especially after dark, and during some thunderstorms its fading flowers emit electric sparks.
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a system of judicial and executive administration of a country, especially concerned with the maintenance of the quiet and good order of society; the means or system adopted by the authorities of a government, state, or community to maintain public order and liberty, and POLECAT to protect property. In a more limited sense, the administration of the laws, bylaws, and regulations of a city. Also properly an abbreviation of the term police force.
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women stationed in police stations whose function it is to take charge of the women and child pris- The brutality of compelling oners. women to be searched and held by men police officials first brought protest over a hundred years ago. As far back as 1822 Elizabeth Fry, and the Society for the Improvement of Prisons, demanded that women should have charge of female prisoners arrested by the police, and gradually police matrons became an institution all over the country. Portland, Me., has the honor of having been the first municipality to install matrons in the city jails, in 1876. The National Prison Congress, held in 1886, made the necessity of police matrons the subject of a strong recommendation, which was immediately followed by a great number of American municipalities. At the present time practically all cities and towns in this country have adopted the practice.
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a document containing a promise to pay a certain sum of money on the occurrence of some event. In return for this promise a sum of money is paid down, called the premium. By far the largest part of insurance business is applied to disasters at sea; to destruction of property by fire; to making provision for heirs and successors in case of death, and to loss of time and expense through accident. Marine policies are of two kinds: (1) Valued policy, one in which the goods or property insured one specified value.val(2) of Open policy, one in which the value of the goods or property is not mentioned. In England a ticket or warrant for money in the public funds. Wager policies, wagering policies; policies containing the phrase, "interest or no interest," intended to signify insurance of property when no property is on board the ship. They are not recognized in law.
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an ancient French family, which claims to derive its name from a castle-the ancient Apolliniacum in the department of Haute-Loire, and which since the 9th century possessed the district of Velay. Among its most famous members was CARDINAL MELCHIOR DE
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See Cleansing, Pickling and Polishing. For polishing of steel, pivots, etc. See Steel, Pivots, etc. POOLE, JOHN. An English chronometer maker of considerable fame and the inventor of the auxillary compensation which bears his name. He was born in 1818 and died in 1867.
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Various polishing agents are used by watchmakers, jewelers, gold and silversmiths, a few of which are here described. Where the article will admit of it, the best results are obtained by polishing in the lathe. For this purpose the watchmaker should not use his regular lathe, but should have for the purpose what is known as a polishing lathe, fitted with its various attachments in the shape of scratch-brushes, buffs, etc.
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The substances used by the worker in gems and precious stones are principally powdered diamond, sapphire, and ruby; for the several operations in the various metals, powdered corundum, emery, pumice-stone, flint, tripoli, rottenstone, chalk, oxide of tin, oxide of iron, etc., are used by metal-workers. For the first operations in glass-polishing, silex sand and water are used between the rubber and the glass, after which different grades of emery, and finally the putty powders, or oxide of tin. See throughout the work for a description of the substances mentioned.
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division of people in a State marked off by the particular views they hold as to the public of the people at large.
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FRANK LYON, an American public official. Born in New York City, 1871, and graduated from Yale University in 1894. Began the practice of law in New York City in 1897 and later served on the Civil Service Commission. In 1915 he was appointed counsellor for the Department of State, and after President Wilson's and Secretary Lansing's departure from Paris in 1919, he represented the United States at 'the gathering of the Powers. He resigned his post in June, 1920.
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LEONIDAS, an American military officer; born in Raleigh, N. C., April 10, 1806; was a cousin of President Polk. Graduating at the United States Military Academy in 1827, he received a commission in the artillery, but was induced to study for the ministry, and in 1838 was consecrated Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory, with charge of the dioceses of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In 1841 he resigned all these except the bishopric of Louisiana, which he retained till his death. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he was offered a major-generalship by Jefferson Davis, and, accepting it, proceeded to strongly fortify strategical points on the Mississippi. At Belmont, in November, 1861, he was driven from his camp by Grant, but returned and compelled him to retire. At Shiloh and at Corinth he commanded the 1st Corps; in October, 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant- General and in November he conducted the retreat from Kentucky. After Chickamauga, where he commanded the right wing, he was relieved of his command; but in December, 1863, he was appointed to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and Eastern Louisiana, and he afterward joined Johnston in opposing Sherman's march to Atlanta. He was killed while reconnoitering on Pine Mountain, June 14, 1864.
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