Swan River
a river in Western Australia, which colony was originally known as the "Swan River Settlement." Fr Perth, the capital of the colony, is on the Swan river, and Fremantle is at its mouth.
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These 18 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Swan River, Swansdown, Swarthmore College.
Swansdown
the name for a fine, soft, thick, woolen cloth; or more commonly for a thick cotton cloth with a soft nap on one side.
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Swarthmore College
coa educational institution for higher education, founded in 1864, by the Society of Friends of Swarthmore, Pa. In 1919 there were 487 students and 45 instructors. President, Joseph Swain.
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Swartz
MIFFLIN WYATT, an American educator, born at Winchester, Va., in 1874. He was educated at the University of Chicago and began teaching at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1900, becoming president of the Woman's College of Alabama in 1915. He was a member of the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges and wrote "Personal and Dramatic Characteristics of the Old in the Dramas of Euripides" (1910).
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Swat
or SUWAT, a region in Central Asia, W. of the upper Indus river. It is but little known. Its ruler is a chief, called the Akhoond.
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Swatau
a seaport of China which has been opened to foreign trade since 1869; at the mouth of the Han river, 225 miles E. of Canton, in the province of Kwang-tung. It is the seat of great sugar refineries, and bean cake and grass cloth manufactures. Imports (1919) $30,000,000; exports, $11,000,000. The imports consist principally of bean cake and beans, cottons, opium, rice, metals, hemp, silks and woolens, and wheat. Sugar forms the chief item among the exports; besides it tobacco, cloth and nankeens, joss paper, grass cloth (made from a kind of hemp fiber), and tea are sent abroad. Pop. 110,000.
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Swaziland
a South African native state; on the W. side of the Libomba mountains, and forming geographically an intrusion into the E. side of the Transvaal Colony. It has an area of 6,678 square miles; a pop. of 99,959 natives and 1,700 Europeans. Tobacco, maize, millet, and ground nuts are raised. Considerable tin is exported. The territory is rich in minerals that await development. Revenues (1919) £70,842. Expenditure £82,006. In 1906 the administration of the state was given to the High Commissioner of South Africa. The independence of this little state was recognized by its powerful neighbors, the South African republic (now the Orange River Colony) and the British Government, in 1884; in 1890 the white settlers, mainly gold miners, were put under joint "gov joint "government commit " appointed by Great Britain and the Boers.
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Sweating System
the system by which sub-contractors undertake to do work in their own houses or small workshops, and employ others to do it, making a profit for themselves by the difference between the contract prices and the wages they pay their assistants. Laws have been enacted both in England and the United States to regulate the system, and providing penalties for the employment of children and others in overcrowded and ill-ventilated "sweat shops."
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Swedenborg (EMANUEL dom in theology)
EMANUEL dom) in theology, the "Arcana Cælestia" (The Secrets of Heaven), "Apocalypsis Revelata " (The Apocalyp Revealed), "De Cultu et Amore Dei" (On pse the Worship and Love of God), "On Heaven and Hell," "On Conjugal Love," and the "True Christian Religion." He died in London, England, March 29, 1772. of it, the remainder being divided between the second and third. Also, the contributions from several persons. prize in a horse race, etc. , made up of American military officer; born in Kirk-
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Swedish Beamtree
in botany, the Pyrus intermedia, a sub-species of P. aria. It has oblong, rather distinctlylobed leaves, ashy-white below, with 5 to 8 nerves on each side.
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Swedish Literature
. See Literature Sweet Flag (acorus calamus), an aquatic plant. A relative of jack-in-the-pulpit, but growing in shallow water. The yellowish green flowers are crowded on a tall scape with no covering, no pulpit. The leaves are sword-like, resembling those of the common blue flag. The thick creeping root-stocks have a sweet odor and a pungent taste. Boys like to carry bits in their pockets to nibble at. Candy makers use sweet flag as a flavor. It is used also as a perfume. The name comes from the flavor of the root and the shape of the leaves. Sweet flag grows in Great Britain , and in America from east Kansas and Minnesota to Florida and Nova Scotia . See Perfume; Oil
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Sweep
See STRICKLE. Sweep-board is essentially a strickle, but this term is invariably used for all boards that are intended to sweep circular moulds by means of the spindle. The sweep-board is bolted to the spindle-arm, and, being revolved, imparts to the finished cope whatever design has been carved on its edge. See STRICKLE; SPINDLE; LOAM-MOULDING.
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Sweep Seconds
A movement in which a long seconds hand moves from the center of the dial instead of at the bottom, as in chronographs and split seconds watches.
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Sweet
BENJAMIN JEFFREY, an land, N. Y., April 24, 1832; settled with his parents in Stockbridge, Wis., in 1838; attended Appleton College for a year, SWEDENBORGIANS. See NEW JERU- and later spent his leisure in the study SALEM, CHURCH OF THE.
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Sweet Briar
or SWEET BRIER United States, and grows wild, but is often planted in hedges and gardens on account of the sweet balsamic_smell of its small leaves and flowers. It is also called the eglantine.
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Sweet Gum
the Liquidambar styraciflua, a North American tree about 60 feet high with apetalous flowers, in appearance like Acer campestre. The wood is fine-grained, and well adapted for furniture; the fragrant gum exuding from it when incisions are made in its bark constitutes liquid-ambar.
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Sweet Sop
the Anona squamosa, a large shrub or tree of stunted irregular growth with spreading branches, indigenous in the West Indies and much cultivated in other tropical countries. It is completely domesticated over a great part of India. The fruit is about the size of an orange, of a glaucous yellowish-green color, covered with projecting scales; pulp white with a tinge of yellow, very sweet. The acrid seeds and the leaves are insecticide.
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Sweetflag
a plant , also called sweetrush, found in marshy places throughout the Northern Hemisphere . The leaves shaped; the stem bears a lateral, dense, are swordgreenish spike of flowers. The root has been employed in medicine since the time of Hippocrates. It is also used by confectioners as a candy, and by perfumers in the preparation of aromatic vinegar, hair powder, etc.
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