Shooter's Island
an island between Newark Bay and Staten Island; chiefly noted for its large shipbuilding plant.
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Shooting Star, Shore Lark, Shorey.
Shooting Star
a small celestial' body suddenly becoming luminous and darting across the sky, its course being marked by a streak of silvery radiance, which is an optical illusion caused by the rapidity of its passage. See METEOR.
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Shore Lark
or SHORE PIPIT, in ornithology, the Otocorys (Alauda) alpestris, a native of the N. of Europe and Asia. The adult male is about seven inches long; in summer, lores, cheeks, gorget, and band on top of head, ending in erectile tufts, black; nape, mantle and upper tail coverts pinkish brown, white beneath. They nest in a depression in the ground and lay four or five eggs- French-white mottled with dull olivegreen or yellowish-brown.
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Shorey
PAUL, an American educator; born in Davenport, Ia., Aug. 3, 1857; was graduated at Harvard University in 1878; admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1880; was Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College in 1885-1892. In the latter year he accepted a similar chair at the University of Chicago. His publications include "De Platonis Idearum Doctrina" (1884); "The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic" (1895); "The Odes and Epodes of Horace" (1898); "Unity of Plato's Thoughts" (1903); "The Assault on Humanism" (1918), and numerous contributions to periodicals.
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Short-Sight
. See Eye
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Shorter
CLEMENT KING, an English editor; became editor of the "Illustrated London News" in 1891; also had charge of the "Sketch," "Album," and "English Illustrated M Magazine," and was generally regarded as one of the ablest and most acute editors in London. His published works comprise: "Fifty Years of Victorian Literature, 1837-1887" (1897); "Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle" (1896); "Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen" (1897); "Immortal Memories" (1907); "George Borrow and His Circle" (1913); etc.
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Shorthorn
a breed of cattle characterized by short horns, rapidity of growth, aptitude to fatten, and good temper. It was produced by Charles and Robert Colling, at Ketton and Barmpton, near Darlington, England, by a process of in-and-in breeding between 1780 and 1818. The Collings were imitated by R. T. and J. Booth between 1814 and 1863; by Thomas Bates between 1818 and 1849. The process has been followed in the United States since 1817.
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Shorthouse
JOSEPH HENRY, an English novelist; born in Birmingham, England, Sept. 9, 1834. His best-known novel is "John Inglesant" (1881). His other works include: "The Little Schoolmaster, Mark" (1883-1884); "Sir Percivas1886), "A Teacher of the Violin" (1888); "Blanche, Lady Fal Falaise" (1891); "The Humorous in Literature"; etc. He died in 1903.
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Shortt
EDWARD, a British public official. He was educated at Durham School and University and became a barrister. He was Recorder of Sunderland Liberal member of parliament for Newcastle. during 1907-18, and in 1910 became In 1918-1919 he was Chief Secretary for Ireland and became Home Secretary since 1919.
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Shoshone Indians
a family of American Indians, also known as Snakes, living since 1805 to the W. of the Rocky mountains; they are now on four reservations, two in Idaho, one in Wyoming, and one in Nevada. Hostilities ceased in 1867, after an expedition had destroyed a great part of their braves and stores. Total number about 4,000. See AMMUNITION; PROJEC- SHOT. TILE, etc.
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Shoshoni
a tribe of Western Indians. They are known also as Snake and as Digger Indians . As compared with the Sioux they were a degraded lot, living on berries, roots, reptiles, and insects, and, in part, by hunting and fishing. The Bannocks, Utes, and Comanches were related to the Shoshoni and are included in the term Shoshonean. The name is preserved in the Shoshone Falls of the Snake River . These falls are 1,000 feet wide and 210 feet high.
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Shoulder Chuck
A chuck having a large opening in the end with square shoulders for the work to rest upon as shown in Fig. 82.
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Shoulder Joint
the articulation of the upper arm or humerus with the glenoid cavity of the scapula or shoulder blade (see ARMS). The shoulder joint forms an example of the ball-and-socket joints, the ball-like or rounded head of the humerus working in the shallow cup of the glenoid cavity. Such a form of joint necessarily allows of very considerable movement, while the joint itself is guarded against dislocation or displacement by the strong ligaments surrounding it, as well as by the tendons of its investing and other muscles. The muscles which are related to the shoulder joint are the supraspinatus above, the long head of the triceps below, the subscapularis internally, the infraspinatus and teres minor ex externally, and the long tendon of the biceps within. The deltoid muscle lies on the external aspect of the joint, and covers it on its outer side in front and behind as well, being the most important of the muscles connected with it. The movements of the shoulder joint consist in those of abduction, adduction, circumduction, and rotation-a "universal" movement being thus permitted; and its free motion is further aided, when the bony surfaces are in contact, by separate movements of the scapula itself, and by the motion of the articulations between the sternum and clavicle, and between the coracoid process and clavicle also. The biceps muscle, cle, from its connection with both elbow and shoulder joints, bring the movements of both into harmonious relation.
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Shouse
JOUETT, an American public official, born in Woodford co., Ky., in 1879. He was educated at the Mexico (Mo.) High School, and at the University of Missouri. From 1898 to 1904 he was successively reporter, managing editor, and business manager of the Lexington (Ky.) "Herald," and also editor and manager of "The Kentucky Farmer and Breeder." After being interested in various enterprises at Lexington, Ky., from 1904 to 1911, he removed in the latter year to Kansas and engaged there in farming and stock-raising From 1913 to 1915 he served in the Kansas Senate, Ser and from 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the 64th and 65th Congresses, from the 7th Kansas District. In 1919 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Treasury.
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Shoveler
in ornithology, the Spatula (Ana) clypeata, the broadbill or spoonbill duck, widely distributed over the Northern Hemisphere. Length about 20 inches; bill much widened on each side near tip, somewhat resembling that of the spoonbill; head and upper part of neck in adult male rich green, lower part white, back brown, breast and abdomen chestnut brown. It nests in some dry spot near water, and lays from 8 to 14 greenish-buff eggs. Also the white spoonbill.
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