These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sterility, Sterilized Milk, Sterling.
the quality or state of being sterile; barrenness. According to Darwin, sterility in animals and plants may be constitutional or accidental and often arises from changed conditions of life. Thus most raptorial birds from the tropics do not lay fertile eggs in captivity in temperate climates, and many exotic plants brought to England have worthless pollen. Sometimes a little more or less water will decide whether or not a plant will seed.
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milk which has been subjected to a process that destroys the bacteria causing lactic or butyric acid fermentation and the germs of disease. Experiments have been made with chemical sterilizers, but these must be used in quantities so large as to be injurious. A freezing temperature checks the development of bacteria, but cannot be relied on, in every instance, to destroy them. Superheated steam is preferable to boiling water, in sterilization. Sterilization is now largely carried on under the supervision of state and county boards of health.
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originally a substantive, "a coin of true weight," as applied at first to the English penny, then to all current coin. The adjective is now used of all the money of the United Kingdom, and has long been a synonym for pure and genuine.
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a city in Illinois, in Whiteside co. It is on the Rock river, the Hennepin canal, and the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of hardware, agricultural implements, gasoline engines, canned goods, paper, machineshop products, etc. There is a public hospital and a library. Pop. (1910) 7,467; (1920) 8,182.
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GEORGE, an American author, born in Sag Harbor, N. Y., in 1869. He was educated in the private and public schools and at St. Charles College, Ellicott City, Md. He wrote "The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems" (1903); "A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems" (1908); "The House of Orchids and Other Poems" (1911); "Beyond the Breakers and Other Poems" (1914); "Exposition Ode" (1915); "Yosemite" (1915); "The Caged Eagle and Other Poems" (1916); "The Binding of the Beast and Other Poems" (1917); "Lilith," dramatic poem a (1919).
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THOMAS, a United States Senator from South Dakota; born in Fairfield, Ohio, in 1851. He graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1875. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar and removed to South Dakota in 1882. From 1901 to 1911 he was dean of the College of Law at the University of South Dakota. He was district attorney of Spink co. from 1887 to 1889; a member of the South Dakota Constitution Convention, Convention, and a member of the first State Senate in 1890. He was twice elected to the United States Senate, the last time for the term ending 1925.
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YATES, an American naval officer, born in Baltimore, Md., in 1843. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1863, became an ensign in the same year, and rose through the various grades to the rank of rear-admiral in 1902. During the Civil War he served with the North Atlantic blockading squadron, and participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher. Besides being at various times in command of various ships in the United States Navy, he saw service with the Hydrographic Off Office, at the Washington Navy Yard, with the Lighthouse Board, at the naval station at San Juan, P. R., at the navy yard, Puget Sound, and with the Asiatic Fleet, of which he was commander-in-chief from 1904 to 1905. In the latter year, upon reaching the legal age limit, he was retired.
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gold having the value or fineness of the standard established by the British Government. It consists of 22 parts (called carats) of pure gold and two parts of alloy, either silver or copper. But fancy gold articles may be manufactured with only 15, 12, or even 9 carats of gold and the rest alloy. One pound Troy of standard gold is coined into 46 sovereigns. There remains a small fraction over; but 46 sovereigns will do for a pound Troy weight. A sovereign weighs 5 dwts. 3.27447 grains; but 5 dwts. 2½ grains is a legal tender. The Bank of England gives 46£ 14s. 6d. a pound for gold.
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silver having the value or fineness of the standard established by the British Government. It consists of 37 parts of silver and 3 of copper. One pound Troy of silver is coined in 66 shillings. A shilling from the mint weighs 15.27272 grains. The standard value of silver is very variable. In 1870 it was worth at the Bank of England 5s. an ounce. In 1890 it varied from 4s. to 4s. 2d. In December, 1919, it was 6s. 7½d. See BIMETALLISM.
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GEORGE MILLER, an American surgeon; born in Otsego co., N. Y., June 8, 1838; was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in 1860. He was appointed an assistant surgeon in the army in 1861; promoted captain and assistant surgeon May 28, 1866; major, Dec. 1, 1875; lieutenant-colonel Jan. 2, 1891; and brigadier-general and surgeon-general May 30, 1893. During the Civil War he served in the Army of the Potomac and in the Department of the Gulf. Afterward he served through several cholera and yellow fever epidemics, and in 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he planned the army hospital train, and had charge of the medical service of the army. He was secretary of the Havana Yellow Fever Commission in 1879; president of the American Medical Association in 1898; and the author of "Photo-Micrographs, and How to Make Them"; "Manual of Bacteriology"; "Immunity, Protective Inoculations, and Serum- Therapy"; etc. He died in 1915.
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ALBERT EDWARD, an American portrait painter, born in London, in 1863, of American parents. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and studied art in Paris. In 1879 he removed to the United States. Settling in Chicago, he worked as an artist, scene painter, and lithographer. In 1885 he opened a studio in New York. He illustrated many well-known books and received medals at several expositions. He was an associate member of the National Academy, and was president of the Painter-Gravers of America in 1918.
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