Rosewater
VICTOR, an Ameriin 1871. He was educated at Columbia can journalist, born in Omaha, Nebraska, University. In 1893 he began his journalistic career on the Omaha "Bee," becoming managing editor in 1895, editor in 1906, and publisher in 1917. He took being a member of the Republican Naan active interest in Republican affairs, tional Committee, 1908 to 1912. He was also at various times a member of the National Civic Federation, the American Jewish Committee, and of several historical and economic associations. During the World War he served as a member of the Committee on Labor, Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, as well as the Nebraska State Administrator of paper and pulp of the War Industries Board. He has frequently 1 contributed to magazines and wrote "Special Assessments-a Study in Municipal Finance" (1898).
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Rosin and Resin
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Roslin
a Midlothian village, near the wooded glen of the North Esk, 61/2 miles S. of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its castle, dating from the 14th century, was the seat of the St. Clairs, Earls of Orkney from 1379 to 1471, and afterward of Caithness, and hereditary grand-master of Masons of Scotland from 1455 to 1736. The exquisite "chapel" built about 1450, is really the choir of an intended collegiate church, and is only 70 feet long, 35 broad, and 42 high. Its beauty lies not in the outline, but in the profusion of stone-carving lavished on pinnacles, niches, vaulted roof, and clustered columns, and especially on the famous "Prentice pillar." Much damaged by an Edinburgh mob in 1688, it was restored by the 3d Earl of Rosslyn and has served since 1862 as an Episcopal church. On Roslin Moor the Scotch are said to have twice defeated the English in one day, Feb. 24, 1303.
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Rosmini
ANTONIO ROSMINI- SERBATI, an Italian philosopher; born of noble family at Roveredo in the Italian Tyrol, March 25, 1797. After a stainless youth of devotion and study, he decided for the priesthood against his parents' wishes, and began the course at Padua in 1817. Three years later his father's death gave him an ample estate. He was ordained priest in 1821, and devoted the next five years at home to study, meditation and prayer. He formed a comprehensive and coherent system to serve as a basis for the truths of revelation, and planned a new institution for the training of teachers and priests in wisdom and holiness. From 1826 to 1828 he lived mostly in Milan, next thought out the rule of his new order in a period of retirement and severe mortification at Domodossola in the Piedmontese Alps, visited Rome, gained the approval of Pius VIII. both for his special studies and for the institution of his order, and published his "New Essay on the Origin of Ideas" (4 vols. 1830), which at once carried his name over the Catholic world. He identified himself with rational movements and lost power with the Pope. His works filled 35 volumes and they were placed on the Index in 1849. Rosmini retired to Stresa, where he died in 1855.
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Rosolic Acid
in chemistry, H4C6 C20H1603- > C < C6H3 ( CH3) O H. C6H4 (OH), a weak acid prepared by treating rosaniline with nitrous acid, and boiling the resulting diazo-compound with hydrochloric acid. It forms shining monoclinic prisms, closely resembling those of aurine, melts above 220°, is insoluble in water, but dissolves readily with brownish-yellow color in alcohol and ether. Boiled with aniline and benzoic acid it yields a beautiful and permanent blue dye.
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Ross
EDWARD ALSWORTH, an American economist, born at Virden, Ill., in 1866. He graduated from Coe College in 1886 and took post-graduate studies at the University of Berlin and at Johns Hopkins. ns. In 1891-2 he was professor of economics at Indiana University, and in 1892-3 was associate professor of political economy and finance at Cornell. He became professor of sociology in Leland Stanford Jr. University in 1893; he occupied the same chair at the University of Nebraska (1901-6). In 1906 he was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He lectured on sociology at Harvard, Chicago, and other universities. His works on economic subjects include "Honest Dollars" (1896); "Social Control" (1901); "Sin and Society" (1907); "The Changing Chinese" (1911); "Changing America" (1912); "The Old World in the New" (1914); "Russia in Upheaval" (1918); and "What Is America?" (1919).
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Ross (BETSY famous in history)
BETSY, famous in history as the maker of the first American flag. She was born in 1752, in Philadelphia, a daughter of Samuel Griscom, who helped to erect Independence Hall, and was married to John Ross. Following the decision of the Continental Congress in respect to a national flag, a committee, including George Washington, on, Robert Morris, and George Ross called on Mrs. Ross and invited her to undertake the sewing. She agreed and it was on her suggestion that the five-point rather than the six-point star was used. Mrs. Ross contracted to make all the government flags and the business continued in the family till 1857. Mrs. Ross died in 1836. In 1898 the Betsy Ross Memorial Association was formed, and in 1905 the house of Betsy Ross was converted into public property as the American Flag House.
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Ross (II)
SIR JAMES CLARK, an English Arctic and Antarctic explorer; born in London, England, April 15, 1800. He entered the British navy at the age of 12, accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, on his two voyages in search of a N. W. passage, and in the interval between them accompanied Capt. William Parry in his three Arctic voyages. He was promoted to the rank of post-captain in 1834, particularly for the discovery of the North magnetic pole in 1831. He commanded the expedition in the "Erebus" and "Terror" to the Antarctic Ocean in 1839- 1843; and on his return published a narrative of that voyage, which had contributed largely to geographical and scientific knowledge generally. Captain Ross was knighted for his services, and received numerous other honors. In 1848 he made a voyage in the "Enterprise" to Baffin Bay in search of Sir John Franklin. He died in Aylesbury, England, April 3, 1862.
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