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an organization whose purpose it is to serve as a clearing-house of information regarding social institutions for the betterment of society in all countries. At first known as the League for Social Service, it was reorganized under its present name in 1902. Its work is divided under the following heads: gathering facts on social and industrial betterment; interpreting these facts and tracing their causes; and to make known results obtained by the various social betterment institutions in all countries. As an instance, when an employer desires to establish profit-sharing in his firm, the Institute will save him the trouble of an extensive investigation into the subject and supply him with the material.
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Stock
a name originally applied to a cruciferous garden plant, Matthiola incana (called more fully stock gillyflower), but now extended to the various species of Matthiola, and to certain allied plants of the same order. They are herbaceous or shrubby, biennial or sometimes perennial, and have single or double fragrant flowers. M. incana is probably the parent of the greater number of the hoary-leaved varieties cultivated in Great Britain, and known as Brompton stock, queen stock, etc. M. annua is the source of the common or 10 weeks' stocks, and M. graeca of the smoothleaved annual stocks. The Virginia stock (Malcolmia maritima) has been introduced from the Mediterranean, and like the species already mentioned is a great favorite in the flower garden on account of its beauty and fragrance.
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Stock Dove
the common wild pigeon, 14 inches in length, and with a general bluish gray plumage, the breast being purplish. It raises two or three broods in a season and builds its nest in a tree stump or in a rabbit burrow.
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Stockade
an inclosure or pen made with posts and stakes. In civil engineering, a row of piles, or a series of rows with brushwood in the intervals, driven into a sea or river shore, to prevent the erosion of the banks. In fortification, stout timbers planted in the ground so as to touch each other, and loopholed for musketry.
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Stockinet
a general name given to plain fabrics made on the knitting machine. The name is a corruption of stocking-net. Stockinet is made of cotton, linen, silk, or wool. Wool stockinet is often called jersey cloth. Stockinet is used in the manufacture of hosiery and underwear.
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Stockport
a parliamentary and municipal borough of England, partly in Cheshire and partly in Lancashire, 5 miles S. E. of Manchester, on the Mersey. It occupies an elevated site, on which the houses rise in irregular tiers, giving it a picturesque appearance. Its chief structures are St. Mary's Church, Christ Church, the free grammar school, the Sunday-school, the free library, the museum situated in Vernon Park, Park, and the immense railway viaduct which here crosses the Mersey. The cotton trade, connected with which are spinning, weaving, dyeing, etc., is the staple, and there are also foundries, machine shops, breweries, etc. Pop. (1919) 125,629.
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Stockton, Francis Richard
Francis Richard (1834-1902), an American author. He was a native of Philadelphia. After receiving a secondary education in the schools of his native city, he learned the business of wood-engraving. At thirty-eight he obtained a position in the editorial corps of the Philadelphia Post. Later he was connected with Hearth and Home of New York , Scribner's Monthly, and St. Nicholas. In 1879 he gave Rudder Grange to the press. It is an odd, whimsical account of an imaginary houseboat outing. Other volumes in the same quaint vein are The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, and its sequel, The Dusantes. The Great War Syndicate, Squirrel Inn, and The Adventures of Captain Horn are equally interesting. Among his short tales are The Lady or the Tiger, The Terminal Moraine, etc.
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Stoddard, Richard Henry
Richard Henry (1829-1903), an American poet and journalist. He was a native of Massachusetts. He went to New York while young, and for some time worked in an iron foundry. He soon began contributing short articles and poems to various periodicals and finally devoted his time entirely to literature. He was literary reviewer for the World, and later for the Mail and Express, in which capacity he did a vast amount of critical work and won a deserved reputation for careful and discriminating judgment. Among his books may be mentioned Footprints, Songs of Summer, The King's Bell, Life of Washington, The Lion's Cub, and Under the Evening Lamp.
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Stoddard, William Osborn
William Osborn (1835-), an American writer and journalist. He was born at Homer, New York , and was a graduate of the University of Rochester in 1857. Stoddard tried farming and reporting. In 1861 he served three months in the United States volunteers. He served President Lincoln in the capacity of private secretary 1861-4. Stoddard has written a number of interesting books of adventure and stories for boys. Named in order of their appearance, the more important are Life of Abraham Lincoln, The Talking Leaves, The Red Mustang, The Lost Gold of the Montezumas, and the Errand Boy or Andrew Jackson. His stories throw no little light on the manners and customs of the Indians of the Southwest.
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Stoessel
ANATOLY MIKHAILO- VITCH, a Russian soldier, born in St. Petersburg, in 1848. During the Russo- Japanese War, he was placed, in 1904, in command of the Russian garrison at Port Arthur, and in May of that year, he was defeated by General Oku at Nan-shan. After a siege lasting until Jan. 1, 1905, he surrendered Port Arthur to General Nogi. In 1906 he was tried by courtmartial and condemned to death for surrendering the fortress. His sentence, however, was commuted to 10 years' imprisonment in 1908, and a year later he was pardon pardoned and allowed to resign from the service. He died in 1915.
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Stoicheomancy
A method of divination which is practised by opening the works of Homer or Virgil, and reading as an oracular statement the first verse which presents itself. It is a branch of rhapsodomancy (q.v.).
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Stoici, Styx, Suada, Sulla, Susarion & Sybaris
Stoici A celebrated sect of philosophers founded by Zeno. They preferred virtue to all other things, and regarded everything opposed to it as an evil. Styx A celebrated river of the infernal regions. The gods held it in such veneration that they always swore by it, the oath being inviolable. Suada The Roman personification of persuasion. Sulla See Sylla. Sulmo (Sulmona). A town of the Peligni in the country of the Sabines, celebrated as the birthplace of Ovid. Susarion A native of Megara, to whom the origin of the Attic Comedy is ascribed. Sybaris A town on the bay of Tarentum. Its inhabitants were distinguished by their love of ease and pleasure, hence the term
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