Roof of the World
the Pamirs; an extensive table-land of Central Asia, so named by its natives. A part of the plateau is said to be 15,000 feet above the sea.
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Single-source entries: R (52)
Each of these 10 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Rooney
JOHN JEROME, an American jurist and writer, born in Binghamton, N. Y., in 1866. He was educated at Mt. St. Mary's College, Maryland. After five years' service on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia "Record," he was admitted to the New York bar. In 1813 he became presiding judge of the N. Y. State Court of Claims. He was a member of several legal and Irish-American societies, as well as of the Poetry Society of America. He wrote occasional verses, the best known of which was, "The Man Behind the Guns," written during the Spanish-American War, and later published in book form under that title.
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Root's Positive Blower
The internal operating parts of this positive blower consist of two revolvers, each of which is operative. Externally the blower consists of the case, four journals and journal-boxes, four cut gears, an oil-tight housing, and two driving-pulleys. This blower operates by a regular displacement of air at each revolution, whether it runs fast or slow. When the air enters the case at the opening for induction, and is closed in by the wings of the revolvers, it is absolutely confined, and positively forced forward until brought to the education-pipe, where it must be discharged, or the machine stop, if perfectly tight, as there can be no backward escapement of the air after it once enters the case, the contact being kept up at all times in the centre of the blower between the pistons or revolvers, thus preventing any escape of the air in that direction. See BLOWER; BLAST.
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Rope-slings
A very handy and useful substitute for heavy iron slings, when the flasks to be turned over are not too ponderous. Made as a single strand, with eyes at each end, or by splicing both ends of the rope together, they are infinitely superior to chains where large wood flasks are in constant service. The dealers supply these slings, leather-bound at the loops and middle, as desired. See SLINGS.
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Roper
DANIEL CALHOUN, an American public official, born in Marlboro S. C., in 1867. He was educated at Trinity College, N. C., and at the Na- popularity. tional University, Washington, D. C. From 1892 to 1894 he was a member of the S. C. House of Representatives, from 1894 to 1897 clerk of the United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce; from 1900 to 1910 expert special agent, United States Census Bureau; from 1910 to 1913 clerk of the Ways and Means Committee, United States House of Representatives; and from 1913 to 1916 first assistant postmaster general. He took active part in President Wilson's election campaign in 1916, was vice-chairman of the United States Tariff Commission from March to September, 1917, when he became commissioner of internal revenue. He greatly improved the collection of cotton statistics, originated the publication of the series of reports reports on cotton supply, and made a systematic study on behalf of the government of domestic and foreign textile industries. He wrote the "United States Post Office" (1917).
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Ropes
JOHN CODMAN, an American historian; born in St. Petersburg, Russia, ia, April 28, 1836; was graduated at Harvard in 1857; 1857; studied at the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. Largely through his influence the United States Government began the collection and preservation of information relating to the Civil War, and he organized the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Besides contributions to this society and to periodicals, he wrote: "The Army under Pope" (1881); "The First Napoleon" (1885); "The Campaign of Waterloo"; "Atlas of Waterloo"; and "The Story of the Civil War." He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1899.
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Roraima
a celebrated mountain in South America, where the boundaries of British Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil meet, 8,580 feet high, flat-topped, with steep, rocky sides, rendering the summit almost inaccessible.
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Rorer
SARAH TYSON, an American domestic economist and writer, born at Richboro, Pa. She was educated at the East Aurora Academy, and in 1871 married W. Albert Rorer. She was for 33 years lecturer on food, health, and disease, and a writer on domestic science. From 1886 to 1892 she was editor and part owner of "Table Talk," and from 1893 to 1897 was the editor of "Household News." From 1897 to 1911 she was on the staff of the "Ladies' Home Journal," and from the latter date devoted all her time to lecturing on domestic science. She was the author of many books on cookery which obtained a wide sale and
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Rorqual
the name given to certain whales, closely allied to the common or whalebone whales, but distinguished by having a dorsal fin, with the throat and under parts wrinkled with deep longitudinal folds, which are supposed to be susceptible of great dilatations, but the use of which is as yet unknown. Two or three species are known, but they are rather avoided on account of their ferocity, the shortness and coarseness of their baleen or whalebone, and the small quantity of oil they produce. The N. rorqual (Balænoptera boops) attains a great size, being found from 80 to over 100 feet in length, and is thus the largest living animal known. The rorqual feeds on cod, herring, pilchards, and other fish, in pursuing which it is not seldom stranded on the shore.
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Rosacea
ACNE ROSACEA, or GUTTA ROSEA, an affection which appears on the face, especially the nose, forehead, cheeks, and skin, characte by an intense intense reddening of the skin without swelling. Persons who indulge in alcohol to excess are liable to it. ROSACEÆ, roseworts; an order of plants placed by Lindley under his Rosal Alliance. Calyx four or five-lobed, free or adhering to the ovary; petals five. ve, perigynous, equal; stamens indefinite, rising from the calyx just within the petals, curving inward in æstivation; ovaries several or only one; ovules two or more, generally suspended; fruit either one-seeded nuts or acini, or several-seeded follicles; the leaves are simple or compound, generally with two stipules. Herbaceous plants or shrubs. The rosaceæ are closely akin to the pomaceæ, the drupaceæ, the sanguisorbeæ, and some other orders. They are divided by Lindley into five families or tribes, rosidæ, potentillidæ, spiræidæ, quillaiæ, and neuradea. The rosaceæ occur chiefly in the temperate and cold parts of the Northern Hemisphere; when they occur in the tropics it is generally on high land. They are in general astringent, and have been regarded as febrifuges. A recent estimate gives 90 genera and 1,500 species.
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