Turns
A small dead center lathe used but little in this country.
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These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Turns, Turret, Turtle Dove.
Turret
in architecture, a small tower attached to and forming part of another tower, or placed at the angles of a church or public building especially in the style of Tudor architecture. Turrets are of two kinds such as rise immediately from the ground, as staircase turrets, and such as are formed in the upper part of a building by being carried up higher than the rest, as bartizan turrets. In military antiquities, a movable building of a square form, consisting of 10 or even 20 stories, and sometimes 180 feet high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaches to a fortified place for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, etc. In railways, the elevated central portion of a passenger car, whose top forms an upper story of the roof, and whose sides are glazed for light and pierced for ventilation.
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Turtle Dove
. See Dove Tuskegee (tus-ke'ge) Normal and Industrial Institute, a school for the education of the negro. It was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 at Tuskegee, Alabama. Washington began with a hundred acres of pine land and a small cabin. The first students built their own cabins and cleared the land. Later, both the state and nation granted aid. The institution also received large donations from philanthropists. The present property is worth half a million dollars. There are 150 instructors and 1,500 students, all colored. There are 2,631 acres of land and over 60 buildings. The aim of the school is to train colored teachers, farmers, housekeepers, and mechanics, and especially to teach the value and the dignity of labor. So far as practicable students are enabled to work their way. The best account is to be gained from Washington's autobiographical work, Up from Slavery, and a later volume, Tuskegee and Its School. 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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Turtle Dove
in ornithology, Turtur communis, widely distributed in the warmer parts of Europe. It is a beautiful bird, of somewhat slender form, a summer visitant to the cooler latitudes, arriving in May and departing in September. The male is about a foot long, with the head light bluish gray, the back grayish-brown, the scap- , ulars and small wing coverts black with broad rust-red margins, the breast pale grayish-purple, the neck with two large The black spots barred with white. female is rather smaller, with similar They feed plumage, but of duller tints. on grain and vegetables, often frequenting fields of beans and peas. They make which a slight flat nest of a few twigs, in detwo glossy, creamy-white eggs are posited about the middle of May, and the parent birds take turns at incubation, rearing two broods in a sometimes season. The note is a soft, mournful when the bird is on "coo," often uttered the ground. From its habit of pairing for life, and its fidelity to its mate, the symbol of turtle dove has long been a conjugal affection. In Scripture, probably either T. combird is munis or risorius. The latter about 10 inches in length; tail short; with red general color gray, tinted , upper parts greenish brown, with a black collar on the back of the neck.
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Tuscaloosa
a city and county-seat of Tuscaloosa co., Ala.; on the Black Warrior river, and on the Alabama Great Southern, the Louisville and Nashville, 50 and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, contains miles S. W. of Birmingham. It a court house, a lunatic asylum, the Ala- .) bama Central Female College (Bapt , Tuscathe University of Alabama, the loosa Female College (M. E.), the Stillman Institute for Colored Students National several libraries, (Pres.), banks and a number of daily, weekly, large and monthly periodicals. It has . (1910) cotton and coal interests. Pop 8,407; (1920) 11,996.
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Tuscany
formerly a grand-duchy, now a department of Italy; area, 9,304 . The square miles; pop., about 2,800,000 chain of the northern Apennines forms boundary, a considerable portion of its N. the sea being its boundary on the W. the Arno. Cereals The principal river is cover a large area, and vineyards, olive The yards, and orchards are numerous. manufacture of silk is considerable. The marble of Tuscany, especially that of corre- Siena, is well known. Tuscany , which was sponds to the ancient Etruria , . After the fall however, of wider extent (476) it passed of the Western Empire successively into the hands of the Ostrogoths, Byzantine Greeks, and Lombards. prov- Charlemagne made it a Frankish marquises ince, and it was governed by centuries, or dukes till the 12th and 13th when it became broken up into a number of small republics, four of which were Lucca. From Florence, Pisa, Siena, and the first Florence occupied the leading place, and it gradually extended its terto ritory. In 1569 Pope Pius I. granted Tus- Cosmo I. the title of Grand-Duke of , with cany, and this position was retained family till interruptions, by the Medici 1737, when it passed to Francis Stephen, , under his Duke of Lorraine. In 1859 , descendant, the Grand-Duke Leopold it was annexed to Sardinia by a popular vote, and in 1860 became, with Sardinia, part of the kingdom of Italy.
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Tuscarawas River
a river of the Mohinortheastern Ohio, which with is can river forms the Muskingum. It town on about 125 miles long. The chief this river is Massillon.
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Tuscarora
a tribe of North American Indians, who at an early day lived in North Carolina. on the Neuse river They had much trouble with the colonists tribe. and were nearly destroyed as a The remnant united with the Iroquois territory in and settled in the Oneida about 380, New York. They number reservation in and live on the Indian New York State.
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