These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Simpson College, Sims, Sinaloa.
a coeducational institution in Indianola, Ia.; founded in 1867 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 28; students, 528; president, J. W. Campbell, Ph.D.
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JAMES MARION, an American surgeon; born in Lancaster, S. C., Jan. 25, 1813; studied medicine at Charleston and Philadelphia, and having drawn to some of the special diseases of women, for which he gained a distinguished name, introducing new instruments and operations. He was instrumental in getting a woman's hospital established in New York; subsequently practiced for some years in Europe; and had charge of a large hospital at Sedan after the disaster to the French there in 1870. He died in New York City, Nov. 13, 1883.
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a friable, dry, almost transparent, tasteless, steless, yellowish white resin, which is imported from Mogador, Mo- It is completely soluble in oil of rocco. turpentine, but not completely soluble in alcohol. When heated, or sprinkled on burning coals, it emits an agreeable balsamic smell. It exudes from the bark of the sandarac tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), a native of the N. of Africa, of the natural order Coniferæ. It is employed in making varnish, and generally speaking for the same purposes as mastic. The Australian species also exude sandarac. The finely powdered resin is rubbed, as pounce, on the erasures of writing paper, after which they may be written on again without the ink spreading. The mottled butt wood of the sandarac is highly balsamic and odoriferous, extremely durable . and valuable for cabinet makers
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one of the Pacific States of Mexico; area, 27,557 square miles. Pop. (1912) 329,317. Capital, Culiacan (pop. 22,000). It contains over 100 mining districts chiefly producing silver. The annual sale of cattle is about $9,000,000. Crops, $8,000,000. Revenue, $11,000,000.
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UPTON (BEALL), an American novelist and socialist, born in Baltimore, in 1878. After After graduating from the College of the City of New York in 1897, he immediately took up literature as a vocation, but at first without much success. In 1903 he published "The Journal of Arthur Stirling," supposed to be the diary of a young poet who had committed suicide. Much editorial indignation was vented on Sinclair when it was discovered that he had written the work and was still alive, only serving to bring him into public notice. In 1906 he pub lished the first book which made him famous, "The Jungle," which, in fiction form, gave such a picture of labor conditions in the packing house industry in Chicago that the entire American public was horrified. President Roosevelt immediately ordered an investigation, whose report indicated that Sinclair had, on the whole, stated the actual facts. As a result strin stringent legislation was passed, known as the Pure Food Acts Since then Sinclair has written a number of novels, none of which has attracted much attention. Among these are "The Industrial Republic" (1907); and "The Brass Check" (1920); the latter an alleged expose of American journalism.
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MAY, an English novelist, born at Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England. She was educated at the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, and at an early age began the writing of essays, short stories, and novels. Her first notable success was "The Divine Fire," published in 1904. This attracted wide attention and won her immediate reputation. This was followed by "The Helpmate" (1907); "The Judgment of Eve" (1908); "The Combined Maze" (1913); "The Three Sisters" UPTON SINCLAIR (1914); "The Belfry" (1916); "The Tree of Heaven" (1918). During the World War she served as a nurse in Belgium. She was considered one of the foremost of modern English novelists.
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originally ST. CLAIR, a Scotch family of Norman origin, founded by William de Santo Claro, who settled in Scotland and received from David I. the grant of the barony of Roslin. The earldoms of Orkney, of Caithness, and of Rosslyn have been especially connected with this family, which at one time was one of the most powerful in the kingdom.
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. See Muscle
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the name of a famous prison located at the town of Ossining, Westchester County, New York . It is situated on the Hudson, thirty-two miles above New York City. Its management is humane and progressive and reforms introduced there have been adopted in other prisons, both in this country and abroad. The name of the town of Ossining was also Sing Sing at first, but the unpleasant notoriety attached to the prison resulted in a change of name, made on the initiative of the citizens in 1901. Ossining is, it will be seen, a variant of Sing Sing, both being derived from an Indian word meaning a stony place. The town, which has a population of about 8,000, is built on rocky hills overlooking Tappan Bay and commands a beautiful view of the Hudson River .
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the capital of the province of Shen-si, in northwest China. It was long the capital of the empire, and is still of strategic and commercial importance. Silk, tea, and sugar are the principal articles of commerce. Pop. about 1,000,000.
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an island at the southern end of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel less than a mile in width, called the Old Strait. The island belongs to Great Britain . It has an area of 206,000 square miles. The city of Singapore near the southern extremity of the island is situated on a fine harbor. It is a free port of call, without even a custom house. All Malaysia markets here. Ships from England and India bring the goods of the western world is Singapore; ships from Japan and China bring the goods of the Pacific coast. Enormous quantities of merchandise are loaded and unloaded at the wharves six miles in length. Over fifty lines of steamers from the east and from the west meet here, like the caravans of old, to exchange cargoes of tin, sugar, pepper, nutmegs, mace, cubebs, sago, tapioca, rice, buffalo hides, rattan, gutta percha , india rubber , copra, tea, coffee, dyestuffs, tobacco, wine, spirits, cloth, opium, fish, coal, petroleum, hardware, cigars, preserved fruits, canned vegetables, and machinery. The export of Singapore is not less than $250,000,000 annually. It is called "The Liverpool of the East." Singapore is headquarters for the menagerie trade in pythons, tigers, pangolins, and other East Indian animals. Population, 250,000.
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