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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Single-source entries: S (187)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sunk Seconds, Sunn, Supererogation.
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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Superfetation
or SUPERFETA- TION, the conception of a second embryo during the gestation of the first; the products of the two conceptions being born together or at different times.
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Superior
a city, port of entry, and county-seat of Douglas co., Wis.; on Lake Superior, and on the Northern Pa-
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Superior (LAKE cific the Great Northern)
LAKE cific, the Great Northern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, the Chicago and Northwestern and the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic railroads; opposite Duluth, Minn. It shares with Duluth the commercial advantage of being the extreme W. port of the Great Lake system of the United States. It has three connecting harbors, well sheltered, and deep, making a combined length of 13 miles, with an extreme width of 3 miles. The city comprises the ports known as East, West, South, and Old Superior. Here are the Finnish University, high schools, street railroads, electric lights, a State Normal school, several hospitals, numerous churches, waterworks, National and State banks, and several newspapers. The industries include the manufacture of flour, lumber, lath, shingles, wagons, chairs, barrels, woolen goods, cement, furniture, bags, iron, steel, etc. There are also shipyards, sawmills, coal docks, many grain elevators, and dry docks. Pop. (1910) 40,384; (1920) 39,671.
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Superphosphate of Lime
P2O2 (HO) CaO2; a compound of phosphoric acid and lime in which only one-third of its acid equivalents is saturated with lime. Technically, it is used to describe , made by an important kind of manure treating ground bones with from onethird to two-thirds of their equivalent of sulphuric acid, whereby acid phosphate of lime is formed, together with a quantity of sulphate of lime corresponding to the sulphuric acid used. By substituting coprolites for bones, a manure of nearly identical composition is obtained. This kind of manure is of the highest value, from its stimulating effects.
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Suppuration
a morbid process which gives rise to the formation of pus, one of the destructive terminations of the inflammatory action. The phenomena of suppuration are thus described: The inflammatory leucocytes, instead of developing into fiber cells and forming tissue, become developed into pus globules, and the exudation breaks down more or less completely into a creamy fluid called pus, which consists of these globules floating in serum, the liquor puris. Suppuration in the interior of the body usually terminates in the formation of an abscess; but in some cases the matter is diffused through the interstices of the part, and is termed diffuse inflammation.
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Supremacy (PAPAL the authority partly)
PAPAL, the authority, partly spiritual and partly temporal, which the Pope, as Bishop Bishop of Rome and successor of St. Peter, claims to exercise over the clergy, and, th through them, over the laity, of the whole world. The development of this supremacy dates from the time when Christianity became the State religion of the Roman empire under Constantine. Its influence was great in England under the Norman kings, and John (1199-1216), from which period it began to decline, and received its death blow from the Act of Supremacy, in the reign of Henry VIII.
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Surabaya
or SOERABAYA, a large seaport town of Java; on the N. E. coast, and capital of one of the three provinces into which the island is divided by the Dutch; lat. 7° 12′ 30″ S.; lon. 112° 44′ 7" E.; it is at the mouth of a navigable river, 1½ mile from the seashore. The river separates the European part of the town from the Chinese and the native quarter. The houses are very good, and some are elegant, particularly the country seats of private individuals. Surabaya is situated within that narrow strait which is formed by the islands of Java and Madura, and is defended by batteries. The mouth of the river is also defended. Pop. of town about 120,000. Province area 2,327 square miles. Pop. 2,115,000.
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Surajah Dowlah
the last independent nawab of Bengal, under whom was perpetrated the massacre of the
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