Tracy
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer; born in Oswego, N. Y., April 26, 1830; 1830; was admitted to the 185 bar in 1851; served as district attorney of Tioga co. in 1853-1854; and was a member of the New York Legislature in 1861-1862. He raised the 109th and 137th Regiments of New York volunteers in July and August, 1862; took a distinguished part in the operations at the front in 1862-1865, and in the latter year was promoted Brigadier-General of volunteers for gallantry in battle. He was United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1866- 1873; judge of the Court of Appeals in 1881-1882; Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of President Harrison in 1889- 1893; president of the commission which drafted the charter for Greater New York in 1895-1896; and unsuccessful candidate for mayor under the new charter in 1897. He died in 1915.
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Tracy (LOUIS an English author born)
LOUIS, an English author, born at Liverpool, in 1863. He was cated privately in Yorkshire and France, and began journalism on Northern Cardiff. He Echo went, Darlington to, and then Allahabad, India, in vail. 1889, returned to England in 1893, and helped T. P. O'Connor to start "The Sun" newspaper in London. He then traveled in the United States and India, and when the war broke out became Commandant of the Whitby District Volunteers. He came with the British War Mission to the United States in 1917, and had charge of a British propaganda bureau in New York. His works include: "The Final War"; "The Postmaster's Daughter"; "The Revellers."
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Trade
BOARD OF, in the United States a body of men selected from among the business men of a city, and appointed to represent and act for the whole business community in advancing and protecting their interests.
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Trade-Winds
. See Winds
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Traducianism
the doctrine that the human soul, as well as the body, is produced by natural generation. St. Augustine seems to have inclined to this belief without committing himself to it or, on the other hand, pronouncing in favor of the opinion opinion that the soul was immediately created by God and infused into the embryo when sufficiently organized.
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Tragacanth
a mucilaginous substance or gum obtained from certain spiny shrubs of Asia Minor and adjacent regions. These plants belong to the genus astragalus. Unlike other gums, tragacanth exudes not from sap or the bark but bursts forth from the pith, forming threads and flakes which may be gathered from the branchlets. Gum tragacanth is odorless and nearly tasteless. Disintegrated in water, for it will not dissolve, it forms desirable but expensive mucilage. It is used by pharmacists in the manufacture of pills and by manufacturers to size crapes and calicoes. The bookbinder uses the gum in marbling books.
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Tragedy
that form of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of human life and character. In order that a dramatic composition may deserve the name of tragedy, certain requirements are necessary. In form, the production must be poetical; in subject it must present events of weight and importance. The style must be lofty and finished; the movement stately, the diction grave and dignified. There should be unity of action, and the outcome, or catastrophe, as it is usually called, must be disastrous. Unity of action requires that every incident, however trifling, must be shown to be a part of the cause of the final catastrophe, or a part of the catastrophe itself.
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Tragi-Comedy
a species of drama in which the tragic and comic elements are blended. The outcome of tragi-comedy is usually happy. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is a species of this class of drama. See Drama ; Comedy ; Tragedy Trajan (53-117 A. D.), a noted emperor of Rome. He was born in Seville, Spain. He was the son of a Roman commander. He distinguished himself in various campaigns in Parthia and on the Rhine. He thus attracted the attention of the Emperor Nerva who adopted him and made him his successor. Trajan came to the throne 78 A. D. Under Trajan the Empire of Rome reached its utmost limits. Trajan's Wall, a fortified double rampart, was built from a point on the Danube to the Black Sea , thirty-seven miles away. To commemorate his eastern victories, Trajan erected an ornate column in Rome. It still stands 117 feet high. It is ornamented--wrapped--with a spiral bas-relief representing the emperor's military exploits. Trajan's reign was noted for tranquility, the building of roads, the security of property, and for religious tolerance. Special provision was made for poor children. He died in Cilicia and was succeeded by Hadrian.
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Tragopan
a name of certain beautiful birds of the genus Ceriornis, and of the family Phasianida, closely allied to the common fowl. C. satyra, a common species, is a native of the Himalayas. The protuberances hang from behind the plumage is spotted, and two fleshy eyes. When the bird is excited it can erect these protuberances till they look like a pair of horns. A large wattle hangs at either side of the lower mandible.
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Traill
HENRY DUFF, an English author; born in Blackheath, England, Aug. 14, 1842; graduated at St. John's, Oxford, in 1864. He was called to the bar in 1868, but soon took to literature. He wrote: "Lives" of Strafford, "William III.," "Sterne," "Coleridge," and others; also "Central Government" (1881); "Recaptured Rhymes" (1882); The " New Lucian" (1884); "Two Proper Prides"; "From Cairo to the Sudan Frontier"; "Lord Cromer"; "The New Fiction"; etc. He edited "Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People," in six large volumes, and in 1897 was made editor of the weekly review, "Literature." He died in 1900.
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Trajan
in full, MARCUS ULPIUS
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Trajan's Column
a celebrated monument in Rome, Italy, and the chefd'œuvre of Apollodorus; erected by the Roman senate and people in honor of the emperor in A. D. 114. It still stands in the Forum of Trajan, and is constructed entirely of marble. The shaft is 87 feet high, and whole, including pedestal and statue, 147 feet. Around the column runs a spiral band 3 feet wide and 660 feet long, covered with well-preserved reliefs from Trajan's war with the Dacians, comprising, besides animals, etc., 2,500 human figures. Beneath the column Trajan was interred, and on it was placed his statue, for which that of St. Peter has been substituted. A staircase in the interior, of 184 steps, leads to an open platform at the top.
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