Story of a Bad Boy, The
The, an autobiographical story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. See Aldrich
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Each of these 14 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.
Story, Joseph
Joseph (1779-1845), an eminent American jurist. He was a native of Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his degree at Harvard in 1798 and began soon afterward to practice law. He held various public positions. In 1808 he was sent to Congress. In 1811 he was speaker of the Massachusetts House. The latter year he was appointed associate justice of the United States supreme court. In this capacity he was an associate of Chief Justice Marshall, with whose views his own coincided. He also held a professorship of law in Harvard from 1829 until the time of his death. His lectures, published in book form, are authoritative. They have a wide use in schools of law. The title of chief interest to the ordinary reader is the Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Others are The Conflict of Laws, Equity Pleadings, Equity Jurisprudence, Law of Partnership, Law of Promissory Notes, etc.
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Stour
a river of England 47 miles long, flowing E. along the Suffolk and Essex boundary to the North Sea at Harwich.
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Stourbridge
a market town of Worcestershire, England, on the Stour, at the border of Staffordshire and the Black Country; 4½ miles S. by W. of Dudley and 12 W. by S. of Birmingham. The famous fireclay named for this town is said to have been discovered about 1555 by wandering glassmakers from Lorraine. Stourbridge has glass, earthenware, and firebrick works, besides manufactories of iron nails, chains, leather, etc. It has a grammar school (at which Samuel Johnson passed a year), a corn exchange, county court, mechanics' institute, etc.
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Stovaine
trade name for the hydrochloride of dimethylamino-amyl benzoate. It is a synthetic drug used as a substitute for cocaine as a local anæsthetic. It is claimed that it is less toxic than cocaine.
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Stovall
PLEASANT ALEXAN- DER, an American editor and diplomat, born at Augusta, Ga., in 1857. He He was educated at the University of Georgia and became editor of the Athens "Georgian," the Augusta "Chronicle," and the Savannah "Press," of which latter paper he was also proprietor. From 1902 to 1906 and again from 1912 to 1913 he was a member of the Georgia House of Cyc-Vol. IX Representatives. From 1913 to 1920 he was United States minister to Switzerland. He wrote "Life of Robert Toombs" (1891).
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Stow
JOHN, an English historian; born in London about 1525. He learned his father's business, tailoring, but his bent was toward antiquarian research. His chief publications were "A Summary of Englische Chronicles" (1561); "Annales, or a Generale Chronicle of England from Brute until the present Yeare of Christe" (1580); and "A Survey of London" (1598). He also printed the "Flores Historiarum of Matthew of Westminster" (1567), the "Chronicle of Matthew of Paris" (1571), and the "Historia Brevis of Thomas Walsingham" (1574). He died in London April 6, 1605.
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Stradivari
ANTONIO (STRADI- VARIUS), an Italian violin maker; born in Cremona, Italy, about 1649. He was a pupil of Nicolo Amati, in whose employment he remained till 1700, when he began making on his own account. It was he who settled the typical pattern of the Cremona violin, and his instruments, for tone and finish, have never yet been excelled. He died in Cremona Dec. 17, 1737.
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Stradivarius
. See Cremona
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Straight
WILLARD DICKER- MAN, an American financier and public official, born in Oswego, N. Y., in 1880. He was educated at Bordentown (N. J.) Military Institute and at Cornell University, and in 1911 married Dorothy Payne Whitney, the daughter of the late W. C. Whitney (q. v.). From 1902 to 1904 he was in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service; from 1904 to 1905 a newspaper correspondent in Korea, Japan, and Manchuria; in 1905 consul-general at Seoul; in 1906 private secretary of the American Minister to Cuba; from 1906 to 1908 consul-general at Mukden; and from November, 1908, to June, 1909, acting chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State, Washington, D. C. In 1909 he went to China as the representative of a group of American bankers, and remained there until 1914. Upon his return he was connected for a short time with J. P. Morgan & Company, then studied international law at Columbia and became a vice-president of the American International Corporation. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, president of the Asiatic Associatilon and a trustee of Cornell University. During the World War he served in the Adjutant General's Department. He died in 1918.
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Straight College
an institution for the higher education of negroes, founded in 1869, at New Orleans. It is co-educational. It has an endowment of about $25,000. It is supported chiefly tributions. In through voluntary contributions. 1919 there were 474 students and 26 members of the faculty. President, Rev. H. A. M. Briggs.
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Straight Line Lever
That form of a lever escapement in which the escape wheel arbor, pallet and balance staff are all planted in a straight line, as in Fig. 266.
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Straightening Castings
Many methods are practised for restoring crooked castings to the proper shape, but the best, when practicable, is to make them red-hot in a heating-furnace, and employ such means after-wards as will hold them in shape until they are cold. Perhaps it will be necessary to bend a little in the opposite direction before they can be made to assume their true shape. In proportion as this effective means of heating can be approached by outside firing, so will the measure of success be. Especially is this the case with large, complicated castings. Crooks in castings are seldom abrupt; the line invariably forms a true curve. To bring this back again correctly it is absolutely necessary that the whole be heated; otherwise it will simply yield at the heated spot or spots, leaving two or more short bends in place of the original regular curve, or, what is still more likely, break the casting. See PEENING.
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Strain
in mechanics, the force which acts on the material, and which tends to disarrange its component parts or destroy their cohesion, or the charge resulting from application of such force. See STRESS: STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
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