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.
a municipal borough of England, in Wiltshire, about 75 miles west of London. The town is mentioned as Swindone in the Doomesday Book and is built on an elevation giving a fine view of the surrounding country. There are important locomotive and carriage works of the Great Western railway. Corn and cattle markets, the charter for which dates back to the times of Charles I., are still maintained.
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. See Hog
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FRANK ARTHUR, a British novelist and critic; born at Wood Green, England, in 1884. He began work at 14 in the London office of Hay Nisbet & Co., Glasgow publishers, and was subsequently on the staff of J. M. Dent & Co. Later he became reader to Chatto & Windus, publishers. His works include: "The Merry Heart"; "The Young Idea"; "The Casement"; "The Happy Family"; "George Gissing: a Critical Study"; "On the Staircase"; "R. L. Stevenson: a Critical Study"; "The Chaste Wife"; "Nocturne"; "Shops and Houses"; "September." American
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a semi-transparent muslin, light in weight and finished with considerable starch. It is usually woven plain, but is sometimes ornamented with embroidered dots or figures. The finer grades are used for women's and children's summer dresses; coarser qualities for curtains and draperies. The manufacture of this fabric originated in Switzerland but is by no means confined to that country at the present time. A fabric similar to Swiss, but somewhat coarser, is called tarlatan. See Embroidery
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a term applied zigzagging, alternate back and forward to a mode of progression up a slope. "switchback" railway originally meant A one where the ascent is up a steep incline simplified by curving the track backwards and forward (and upward) on the face of the slope. Afterward the term came to be applied to a railway where (as at Mauch Chunk, Pa.) the movement of the cars is largely effected by their own weight alone, the descents by gravity and the ascents by a stationary engine. Hence the application to the well-known apparatus for amusing the public at watering places, fairs, and exhibitions: a short length of elevated railway with a series of rounded inclines, so that the car gains enough momentum descending the first steep incline to ascend one or more smaller inclines till it gradually and more slowly works its way to the original level at the far end of the course. Thence it returns in the same way. Sometimes these switchbacks are made circular, called "Russian Mountains. " They were introduced into Paris as a popular amusement about 1815. The latest forms of this kind of amusement in the United States the "toboggan," the "steeple-chase" and are known as "loop-the-loop."
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or SWITHUN, St. of Winchester from 852 to 862. He was , Bishop tutor to Egbert's son, Ethelwulf, under whom he was made bishop. He was a devoted builder of churches and a man of unusual piety and humility. He built a bridge at the E. side of the city. He died in 862 and was buried in the churchyard of Winchester. A century later he was canonized, and the monks exhumed his body to deposit cathedral. Although the account canit in the not be found in contemporary ary chroniclers, the transference of the body is supposed to have taken place on July 15, and to have been delayed by violent rains. Hence the still current belief that if rain falls on July 15 it will continue to rain for 40 Below these falls its navigation properly days.
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In foundry nomenclature swivels mean the trunnions of a flask. Properly speaking, a swivel consists of a link made to turn round on a headed pin. See FLASKS; CHAIN. Swivel-chain is a chain supplied with a swivel-link to permit an even disposal of the links, free from twisting or kinks. This may be accomplished in a superior manner by inserting a long flat link, which, besides working loose on a link-pin at one end, is also tapped at the other end to receive a long threaded link-pin, by which means several chains may be readily adjusted to any required variety of lengths, and thus effectually dispense with the dangerous method of twisting the chains, so prevalent in some foundries. A chain made in this manner is commonly termed a buckle chain by foundrymen. See CHAIN; SWIVEL.
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HERBERT BAYARD, an American journalist, born at St. Louis , Mo., in 1882. He was educated in the United States and in Europe. After serving as a reporter on the St. Louis "Post-Dispatch," the Chicago "Tribune," the New York "Herald " and the New corre- York "World," he spondent for the New York "World" with the German armies from 1914 to war was 1916, and from then on one of the editors of this newspaper. In July, 1918, he was appointed associate member and assistant chairman of the United War Industries Board. During the Paris peace conference he acted as chief correspondent for the "World " and associated papers, and was appointed by the Paris peace conference, chairman of the American Committee on Publicity . In 1917 he was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the most meritorious newspaper work by the College of Journalism , Columbia University. He was a member of the Authors' League of America and of the Academy of Political Science and wrote "Inside the German Empire" (1916).
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a popular name for any individual of the humming bird genus, Docimastes. The bill, which exceeds in length the body of the bird, is a character SWORDBILL by which this humming bird may be dÃstinguished at the first glance. One species is known, D. ensiferus, an inhabitant of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Sylla (or Sulla), L. Cornelius. A celebrated Roman, of a noble family, who rendered himself conspicuous in military affairs, and became antagonistic to Marius. In the zenith of his power he was guilty of the greatest cruelty. His character is that of an ambitious, tyrannical, and resolute commander. He died about seventy years before Christ, aged sixty. Symmachus, Q. Aurelius. A distinguished scholar, statesman, and orator in the latter half of the fourth century of the Christian era, remarkable for his zeal in upholding the ancient pagan religion of Rome.
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