Roundfish
the Salmo (coregonus) quadrilateralis. The specimen on which Sir John Richardson based his description was about 18 inches long. It is not highly prized for food.
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Each of these 13 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.
Roundhead
a term applied by the Cavaliers or adherents of Charles I., during the Civil War of 1642, to the Puritans or adherents of the Parliamentary party, from their wearing their hair cut short, while the Cavaliers al lowed their hair to fall onto their shoul ders.
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Rounding Up Attachment
The Webster rounding up attachment, shown in Fig. 277, is a very useful adjunct to the lathe. It is attached to the top of the slide-rest. To operate, a pointed taper chuck is put in the lathe spindle. The wheel to be rounded up is put into the fixture and the wheel adjusted vertically so that the point of the lathe center will be at the center of the thickness of the wheel, after which the lower spindle of the fixture should not be moved. Now remove the wheel, also the taper chuck, and put the saw arbor, with the rounding-up cutter, in the lathe spindle, and adjust the longitudinal slide of the slide-rest so that the rounding-up cutter will be back of and in line with the center of the rounding-up fixture, after which the longitudinal slide of the slide-rest should not be moved. Now put the wheel and supporting collet in place, and proceed with the rounding-up. ROY, PETER. Watchmaker to the King of France. Died 1785. Author of two works on horology. ROZE, A. C. An eminent French watchmaker. Born in 1812, and died in 1862.
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Roup
one of the most serious diseases which the poultry or pheasant keeper has to fight, because in it there is generally an affection other than the mere cold which develops and makes it apparent. It is usually found that the system is scrofulous, which is the milder form; but sometimes it takes a diphtheritic development, and this is the most severe and deadly disease known to poultry keepers.
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Rovno
a small city in Volhynia, Russia, but more important as a fort. of forts, It formed one of a triangle the other two being located at Lutsk and Dubno. Rovno was first fortified in 1887, and consisted of a system of seven forts in the form of a semi-circle, from four to six miles at a distance of from the city itself, and with a circumference of about twenty miles. During the early part of the World War Rovno served as the base of a Russian invasion of Austria-Hungary, until after the retreat of the Russian army, when it fell into the hands of the Germans. After the final defeat of Germany the forts again fell into the hands of the Russians. During the war between Soviet Russia Poland, in the spring of 1920, the and Poles attacked Rovno, and were reported end of the to have taken it, but at the campaign it was still in the hands of the Bolsheviki.
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Rovuma
a river of East Africa, which rises on the E. of Lake Nyassa, and flows nearly due E., with a course Ocean. of about 500 miles, to the Indian The Rovuma is not well adapted for navigation.
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Rowan Tree
. See Mountain Ash Rowley Poems. See Chatterton; Thomas
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Rowell
NEWTON WESLEY, a Canadian lawyer. He was born in Middlesex co., Ont., in 1867, and was educated in the public schools and Ontario Law Society. He was called to the bar in 1891 and eventually became head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood & Wright, Toronto. He became bencher of the Law Society in 1911 and liberal member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly for North Oxford. He was leader of the liberal opposition in the Ontario Legislature, 1911-17, and in 1918 became a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. He became president of the Privy Council of Canada in 1917.
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Rowland
HENRY COTTRELL, an American novelist, born in New York in 1874. He was educated privately and carried on special studies in surgery at the Polyclinic Hospital in New York. During the Spanish-American War he served as a naval seaman, and in 1899- 1900 was assistant surgeon in the Philippines. In 1914-15 he served as physician in France. During the World War he acted also as war correspondent for "Collier's Weekly" and was a special agent of the intelligence department of the United States Navy. He was the author of "Sea Scamps" (1903); "The Wanderers" (1905); "In the Service of the Princess" (1909); "The Closing Net (1912); "Filling His Own Shoes" (1914). He was a frequent contributor of stories to magazines.
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Roxburgh
a county of southeast Scotland, near the English border. Area, 665 square miles. It is mainly agricultural and is fertile, farming, sheepraising and market gardening being the chief industries. It is watered by the River Tweed, and the Cheviot and Lauriston hills rise up on the horizon, with lakes and streamlets to vary the scenery. Jedburgh is the capital, and a chief town is Hawick. Pop. about 50,000. See
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Royal Academy
THE. ACADEMY OF ARTS, THE ROYAL. fraternal,
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Royal Arcanum
a beneficiary and secret society in the United States. The head offices are in Boston, where the society was formed in 1877 and where accommodation is provided for the sessions of the Supreme Council. The organization is based on the subordinate councils which number about 2,000, spread over the United States, anegroupedpretatitate of or which make up the governing body. The membership is around 250,000 and consists only of male adults. The beneficiary work of the society is that which receives its chief attention and a reorganization of its insurance system entailing an increase in the amount of premiums payable has occasionally been found necessary. The benefits paid to members from the date of the establishment of the society to September, 1920, total nearly $215,000,000.
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Royal Flying Corps
British, the military branch of the British Air Forces. The Royal Flying Corps was organized in 1912 in England in response to a demand that the importance of aeronautics be recognized by forming a special branch devoted to aviation in the British military service. From the date of its origin, with Major Seely as its first commandant, the Royal Flying Corps showed a remarkable progress in expansion and personnel. Starting ing with a total enlisted force of less than one thousand officers and men, it became, even in the early years of the World War, one of the most efficient and highly organized branches of the service. At the close of the World War, its enlistment numbered well over three hundred thousand, including the ground service and mechanics. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps, while preserving its name and organization unchanged, became, by inclusion, a division of the Royal Air Service, which included the naval, dirigible, kite balloon, and blimp branches of the aviation service. The Royal Flying Corps was recruited principally from Great Britain, the Dominion of Canada, Australia and the United States. The commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces complimented the service for the invaluable uable aid that it offered at the So Somme, Vimy, Messines and Ypres, where it distinguished itself equally as a fighting unit and as an essential factor in the success of the ground operations.
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