States
. See United States
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Single-source entries: S (148)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as States, States, Statesville.
States
1921: AGRICULTURAL RELIEF.) RE RUSSIA. British-Soviet Trade Agreement signed at London, March 16, 1921. Blockades removed. Propaganda forbidden. Either party free to have trade representatives in other country. German-Soviet trade treaty signed May 6, 1921. Russian Soviet's request for trade agreement with U. S. rejected in note of Secretary Hughes (March 25). Famine conditions. On July 13 Maxim Gorky sent appeal for help to Europe and America. Secretary Hoover replied for American Relief Administration. Help would be given, but the Soviet government must free all Americans in Russian prisons and must not interfere with relief officials. December 23, an American appropriation of $20,000,000 for Russian relief was signed by President Harding. On December 24 the Soviet government voted to contribute $10,000,000 to purchase food in the U. S. and was granted permission to send purchasing agents. Director Haskell reported in January that children were being saved in Saratov, the worst famine district, and that steps were being taken with the American Government appropriation to reach adults as well. S SAKHALIN. (See WASHINGTON CON- FERENCE: SIBERIA, ETC.)
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States (Bureau connected)
a bureau connected with the Treasury Department, whose chief and almost sole object is to guard against the counterfeiting of the money of the United States and the detection and punishment of the counterfeiters. It is presided over by a chief, who has under him a number of skilful detectives, who are stationed in various parts of the country or assigned to special fields of operation on occasions of emergency.
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States' Rights
in American history, a term employed to designate such rights or authority as may have been retained by the states and not delegated by the Constitution to the general government. The topic is treated more or less fully under CONSTITUTION; CALHOUN; CIVIL WAR; HARTFORD CONVENTION ; NULLIFICATION, and elsewhere.
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Statesville
a city of North Carolina, the county seat of Iredell co. It is on the Southern railway. Its industries include furniture factor factories, cotton mills, flour mills, tanneries, foundries, tobacco factories, and ironworks. It is the seat of the Statesville Female College and Long's Sanitarium. Pop. (1910) 4,599; (1920) 7,895.
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Statice
in botany, sea-lavender; the typical genus of Staticeæ. Perennial herbs, with radical leaves, and unilateral spikes on a panicled scape; calyx funnel-shaped, plaited, dry, and membranous; petals united at the base, bearing the stamens. Known species 50 or 60, from the sea shores in Western Asia and other parts of the North Temperate zone. S. caroliniana, the marsh rosemary of this country, has narrow, obovate leaves on long petioles, and bluish-purple flowers. It is one of the most powerful astringents derived from the vegetable kingdom. It has been given with much success in Cynanche maligna, aphthæ of the jaws, etc.
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Statics
briefly, the dynamics of equilibrium, as kinetics is the dynamics of motion. In modern phraseology they are said to make up together the science of dynamics, since both deal with the effects of forces. According to Newton's first and second laws of motion, change of motion in a given mass indicates the existence of a force which is E in the direction in which the change of motion occurs, and is measured by the product of the mass into the rate of this change, or what is called the acceleration. Thus, a falling stone of mass suffers a constant acceleration g second; hence the force pulling it , i. e., its weight, is measured by product Mg. While the stone is descending, the problem is one of kinetics; but when it reaches the surface of the the earth its motion relatively relatively to the earth ceases, there is no acceleration, and the problem becomes statical. Every kinetical problem may be reduced to a statical problem by introducing into the material system forces whose effects will balance the various accelerations to which the different parts of the system are subject.
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Stationers' Hall
the hall of the "Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of the Stationers of the City of London." The Company was incorporated in 1557, and had till the passing of the Copyright Act in 1842 an absolute monopoly, as all printers were obliged to serve an apprenticeship to a member of the Company, pany, every publication, from a Bible to a ballad, was required to be "Entered at Stationers' Hall." This registration is no longer compulsory, but the practice of registering is still useful in making good claims of copyright. The series of registers of books entered for publication, commencing in 1554, is of enormous value in the history of English literature. A transcript of these from 1554 to 1640 was published by Professor Arber in five volumes. See COPYRIGHT.
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Stationery
. See Paper
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Statistics
a collection of facts, arranged and classified, respecting the condition of a people in a state or community, or of a class of people, their health, longevity, domestic economy, their social, moral, intellectual, physical and economical condition, resources, etc., especially those facts which can be stated in numbers or tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement. Also, that department of political science which classifies, arranges, and discusses statistical facts. The Italians were the first to recognize the importance of statistics. The earliest English work on the subject was Graunt's "Observations on the Bills of Mortality," published in 1661. The first International Statistical Congress was held at Brussels in 1853. In every civilized country the science of statistics now forms the basis of most inquiries regarding the condition of the people, Cyc-Vol. IX and no important legislation is attempted without reference, direct or indirect, to the facts which it tabulates.
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Stator
A Roman surname of Jupiter , describing him as staying the Romans in their flight from an enemy, and generally as preserving the existing order of things.
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Statuary-bronze
A bronze composed of copper 9 and tin 1 is sometimes employed for statuary, but large statues are seldom cast of these two metals alone. For this reason it would be more correct to call the several alloys statuary brass. A brass used by the Egyptians consisted of brass 2, copper 1. Grecian and Roman, brass was an alloy of brass 2, copper 1, silver 1/20, lead 1/10. The French sculptor Kellar, 1669, used copper 326.43, tin 25.35, zinc 4.21, lead 1. Modern alloys are composed chiefly of copper 2, brass 1. For general artistic purposes more zinc and tin are added, as they answer as well, are more easily worked, and are cheaper. See STATUE-FOUNDING.
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