Re-Entry
in law, the resuming or retaking the possession of lands lately lost. A proviso for re-entry is a clause usually inserted in leases, that upon nonpayment of rent, etc., the term shall cease.
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Single-source entries: R (18)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Reaction, Reader, Reading.
Rea
GEORGE BRONSON, an American electrical engineer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1869. He practiced his profession in Cuba till the beginning of the revolution; accompanied the insurgent forces of Gomez and Maceo as special correspondent of the "New York Herald"; was present at 80 engagements between Cubans and Spaniards, and was wounded in the action at La Portela. He was present at the bombardment of San Juan, Porto Rico, and in the operation before Santiago. In the early part of the Porto Rico campaign he traveled through the island as an agent in the secret service of the United States Government. He is the author of "Facts and Fancies about Cuba."
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Rea (SAMUEL president)
SAMUEL, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; born at Hollidaysburg, Pa., in 1855. At an early age he entered the engineering department of the Pennsylvania railroad. Some years later he directed the work of constructing the tunnels for the Baltimore and Ohio under the city of Baltimore. In 1892 he became assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania, and in 1899 his first assistant. Appointed in that year fourth vice-president of the road he rose continually until in 1913 he was chosen president. Perhaps his greatest engineering exploit was the construction of the tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers.
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Reaction
in chemistry, the chemical change or effect produced by bringing at least two elements or compounds together whereby one or more new bodies are formed, which may consist either of a gas, liquid, or solid, or a mixture of these; as when sulphuric acid is added to chalk, the products of the reaction are sulphate of lime, water, and carbonic acid gas. In pathology, action of one kind in antagonism with action of another; action immediately following on action of a directly contrary character; or a state succeeding to a directly contrary one, as the exhaustion consequent on a paroxysm of fever. In physics, the action of one body on another one acting on it in the opposite direction. Reaction period, in physiology, the time that elapses between the application of a stimulus to the nerves, and the contraction of the muscles, following it in consequence. Roughly speaking, it is for feeling one-seventh, for hearing one-sixth, and for sight onefifth of a second.
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Read (II)
THOMAS BUCHANAN, an American portrait-painter and poet; born in Chester co., Pa., March 12, 1822. His most important works are: "Poems" (1847); "Lays and Ballads" (1848) "The Wagoner of the Alleghanies" (1862); and "Poetical Works" (1867). His best known poems are "Sheridan's Ride" and "Drifting." He also published: "Female Poets of America" (1848); "The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard," a romance; "The New Pastoral" (1854), his most ambitious poem; "Sylvia; or, The and attorney-general of Pennsylvania, Lost Shepherd" (1857); and "The Good Samaritans" (1867). He died in New York, May 11, 1872. CHARLES READE
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Read (OPIE an American journalist)
OPIE, an American journalist; born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1852. He established and edited for many years the "Arkansaw Traveler." His studies of Arkansas life have been widely read, and include: "Len Gansett" (1888); "My Young Master"; "An Arkansaw Planter"; "Up Terrapin River"; "A Kentucky Colonel"; "On the Suwanee River"; "Miss Polly Lop, and Other Stories"; "The Captain's Romance"; "The Jucklins," a novel; "Bolanyo"; "A Yankee from the West"; "A Tennessee Judge"; "In the Alamo" (1900) "Mystery of Margaret" (1907).
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Read, Thomas Buchanan
Thomas Buchanan (1822-1872), an American poet and painter. He was born in Pennsylvania, and lived in Ohio, in New York , and in England. He was both a landscape and a portrait painter. He painted a portrait of Longfellow's daughters which has been much admired. Photograph copies have been circulated widely. Read published several long poems, but is known best for Sheridan's Ride, which is one of the most popular war ballads ever published. Drifting, The Brickmaker, and The Uprising in 1776 were other well known poems.
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Reader
specifically, one whose office it is to read prayers, lessons, lectures, and the like to others; as (a) in the Roman Catholic Church, of five inferior orders of the priesthood; (b) in the English Church, a deacon appointed to perform divine service in churches and chapels, of which no one has the cure. (c) A kind of lecturer or professor in universities, etc. (d) In printing offices, a proof-reader is a person who reads and corrects proofs.
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Reading
a city of Massachusetts, in Middlesex co. It is on the Boston and Maine railroad. It is chiefly a residential town and has manufactures of organ pipes, carriages, boots and shoes, rubber, games, etc. It has a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,818; (1920) 7,439.
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Reading
EARL OF, RUFUS DANIEL ISAACS, Lord Chief Justice of England. Born in London, 1860, the son of a Jewish fruit dealer, he was edu- EARL OF READING cated in various universities of London, Brussels, and Hanover. After several years of traveling, he finally studied law. Such was his success in the legal profession that in 1898 he became queen's counsel. In 1904 he was elected as a Liberal to the House of Commons. In 1910 he served as solicitor-general and attorney-general. Although accused of having speculated speculated in stock to the prejudice of his official duties, he was made lord chief - justice in 1913 and elevated and massive to the peerage. In 1915 he came to quently associated America to negotiate the Anglo - French posure to light loan, which he successfully accomplished. chemistry, AsS2. Upon the death of the British ambassador at Washington, Earl Reading was commissioned to take his place, where he remained until 1918, when he returned to England to resume his position as lord chief-justice. He was appointed of white-fire. Viceroy of India in 1920.
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Reading (City and county-seat of Berks)
a city and county-seat of Berks co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, the Schuylkill canal, and the Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads; 54 miles E. of Harrisburg; 58 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. The city is regularly laid out on a site gradually rising to picturesque hills, which not only afford fine scenic views, but give a copious supply of pure water. Here are waterworks owned by the city and costing $1,500,000, 500,000, gas and electric lights, inclined gravity and electric railroads, several National and State banks, and Mineral Springs and Penn's Common parks. The charitable institutions include the Reading, St. Joseph's, and the Homeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospitals, several dispensaries, and a Home for Orphans. The city contains over 60 churches, about 50 school buildings, and public school property valued at over $1,000,000. There are upward of 500 manufacturing establishments. Reading is the seat of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad car and machine shops. The chief manufactures are foundry and machine shop products, iron and steel, stoves, woolen hats, brick and tile, cigars cigarettes, and planing mill products and . Reading was settled in 1748, became a borough in 1783, and a city in 1847. Pop. (1910) 96,071; (1920) 107,784.
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