Sunart
LOCH, an inlet in Scotland, in the W. of Argyleshire, opening into the Sound of Mull. It is about 20 miles long, and varies in breadth from less than 12 mile to 3 miles.
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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.
Sunbury
a borough and county-seat of Northumberland co., Pa., on the Susquehanna river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Philadel Philadelphia and Reading railroads; 56 miles N. of Harrisburg. It is an important shipping point for coal. It contains a court house, high school, and electric railroad, numerous churches, a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has door and sash mills, coffin and casket factory, hosiery mill, several large railroad shops, nail works, and silk, saw, and rolling mills. Pop. (1910) 13,770; (1920) 15,721.
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Sunda Islands
the name by which all the islands of the Malay Archipelago west of the Molucca and Banda Seas are known. The four large Sundas are Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, and the lesser Sundas are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, etc.; the name is derived from the Sundanese Malayan people of West Java.
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Sunderbunds
or SUNDARBANS, a vast tract of forest and swamp forming the most S. portion of the Gangetic delta, at the head of the Bay of Bengal; extreme length along the coast, about 165 miles; greatest breadth, 81 miles; and area, 7,532 square miles. The country is one vast alluvial plain where the continual process of landmaking has not yet ceased. It abounds in morasses and swamps, now gradually filling up, and is intersected by large rivers and estuaries running from N. to C. There is a reclaimed tract along the N. border devoted to the cultivation of rice. The unreclaimed portion near the sea consists of impenetrable jungle and thick underwood traversed by gloomy-looking water courses. The Sunderbunds abound in wild animals, including numerous tigers, leopards, rhinoceros, buffaloes, deer, monkeys, etc., Fish are plentiful, and the python, cobra, and other snakes, together with every description of birds and water fowls, are found.
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Sunderland
a seaport and municipal and parliamentary borough of England, at the mouth of the Wear, county of Durham, 13 miles N. E. of Durham, and 12 miles S. E. of Newcastle. It is the largest town of Durham, and includes nearly the whole of three parishes - Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, and Monkwearmouth. The town is for the most part new and well built. It has parks, a museum, a free library, a school of art, etc. The principal buildings include St. Peter's, an ancient parish church on the site of the monastery in which the Venerable Bede was educated, many other churches and chapels, two theaters, etc. The river is crossed by the famous cast-iron bridge of one arch (236 feet span), built in 1793 and since reconstructed and strengthened. The harbor with its docks covers 78 acres, and its entrance is formed by two stone piers with lighthouses. The staple trade interests of the place are shipping, the coal trade, and ship building, and there are also large factories for the making of marine engines, iron work, bottles, glass, earthenware, rope, etc. Coal is the chief export; the imports are chiefly timber and grain, with various raw materials and provisions, from the Baltic ports and Holland. Pop. (1919) 149,263.
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Sundial
a device indicating the time of day by means of a shadow falling on a dial. The dial is usually a circular surface marked off with the hours like the face of a clock. The time or hour of the day is indicated by a shadow cast by means of a triangular finger; hence the expression, "the finger of time." This finger stands at the center; its index edge must be parallel to the earth's axis, that is to say, the finger must point toward the North Star . Sun dials are of use, of course, only when the sun shines and in the daytime. In its essentials this method of telling time differs in no important respect from a shadow cast by a church steeple, a tree, or a fence post by which the farmer and others engaged in outdoor employment are wont to note the dinner hour. The fact that the shadow cannot fail to advance with the progress of the sun has led to the proverbial expression, "as true as the dial to the sun." The Egyptian peasant constructs a sundial by thrusting a palm stem into the earth. This he surrounds with a rude circle of stones. George Washington's sundial at Mt. Vernon bears the truthful inscription, Horas non numero, nisi serenas, I record none but sunny hours. See Newton ; Clock ; North Star
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Sunk Seconds
A dial in which the second bit, as it is called, is cut out and sunk below the surface of the dial itself, thus gaining space for the hour and minute hands.
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Sunn
a large leguminous annual, rising under favorable circumstances to a height of 10 feet, in appearance resembling somewhat the allied Spanish broom. It is indigenous to Southern Asia, and also widely distributed through tropical Australia. In the former country sunn has been cultivated from remote times for its fiber, which is manufactured into rope, sackcloth, nets, twine, and paper. Sunn is also grown as a fodder plant for cattle. The subspecies, C. tenuifolia, furnishes Jubbulpore hemp; C. retusa yields a fiber for ropes and canvas, and C. Burhia for ropes.
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Super-Electric-Power Zone
a proposed development, organization, and tying together of electric power plants and systems in the North Atlantic Seaboard States for the purpose of a better, more complete utilization of the natural sources of energy of the section and also to form a more flexible power system, capable of assuring absolute reliability of service at all times and against any local breakdown or mischance, in the same way as the American and Canadian Niagara Falls plants are now tied together in the service of that vicinity and as various power services in New York City are tied or prepared to be tied into one another in the event of local emer-
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Supererogation
the performance more than duty of requires. The doctrine of supererogation in Church history is the doctrine founded on that of the communion of saints, that the merit of good works done by one Christian belong to the whole body of the faithful. The principle was affirmed in the "Institution of a Christian Man" published by authority of Convocation (A. D. 1537). At the time of the Reformation the sale of indulgences had brought discredit on the doctrine of supererogation, or "as it might more properly be called, the communion of saints in good works," and Article XIV. was directed against the popular belief. Works of supererogation, is a controversial phrase borrowed from Article XIV. of the Church of England, and there defined as "voluntary works, besides, over, and above God's Commandments."
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