Universal Balm
An elixir composed by the alchemists, which formed a sovereign remedy for every malady, and would even bring the dead to life.
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Single-source entries: U (7)
These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Universal Balm, Universal Language, Universe.
Universal Language
the ideal of the ultra-internationalists, who desire a medium of vocal intercourse between the peoples of all nations and countries. In diplomatic circles French has largely held this position for the past hundred years, while in European commercial cir- Eu cles German has been the most common means of intercourse, while English holds first place in the Far East. Certain
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Universal Rolling-mill
A compound rolling-mill consists of a pair of vertical rolls working in combination with another pair of horizontal ones, which act to compress the pile edgeways and flatways at once.
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Universe
in astronomy, that part of space that contains the heavenly bodies. No dimensions can be assigned, for we do not know the distance of the remotest star now visible, nor do we know what stars may exist in space beyond our field of vision. So far as astronomers have been able to study the sidereal or starry universe, they are of the opinion that nearly all the stars are within a space having the shape of a thin disk or the form of a watch. Our sun appears to be near the center of this astronomical universe. The large stars are distributed rather uniformly, but the smaller stars are clustered or arranged in streams. It is held that the entire stellar universe is revolving about a center of gravity situated in or near the largest star in Pleiades.
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Universities (AMERICAN groups of idealists)
AMERICAN groups of idealists, however, contend that there should be a language which, if it does not quite become the native tongue of all peoples, should at least be universally taught and so widely known that intercourse between peoples would become practically as free as in any single country. To supply this want artificial languages have been created, one of the first of which was Volapük. More recently a more perfected system was created, known as Esperanto, whose vocabulary is made up of a mixture of the Latin languages, English and German. This language may be learned with greater ease than any of the national forms of speech and is now more or less fluently spoken by millions of people in all parts of the world. In 1920 it was adopted as the official international language of the Russian Soviet Government, which has made it one of the studies in the schools of Russia.
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Universities (AMERICAN There is no accepted)
AMERICAN. There is no accepted definition of the term "university" in America. Our earliest colonial institutions were founded as schools or colleges. The Constitution of Massachusetts of 1780 uses this language: "Harvard College, in which University many persons" have been educated. This identification of the terms college and university is not yet obsolete. The name of Yale College was changed to Yale University in 1886. The College of New Jersey became Princeton University in 1896. The state institutions in earliest days beginning with North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina generally used the title university without any real discrimination in work. Within the past fifty years the American University has assumed a more definite form and type. This type differs essentially from that of the historic English Universities and equally so from those of Germany. The American University has in general been developed out of the American College, and it still includes the college as a part of its organization. So Harvard College is a branch or department of Harvard University. Adelbert College is a part of Western Reserve University. A university is therefore a college plus something more. This something more includes: (1) provision for graduate work leading to the Ph. D. degree; (2) extended facilities for research; (3) additional schools co-ordinate with the college or built upon the same for professional work of high character. Medicine, Law, and Engineering in its most varied forms are the professions most frequently provided for, though others are sometimes added, It
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University College (Teaching institution belonging)
a college or teaching institution belonging to a university, or such as might belong to a university. The University College, London, is closely connected with London University. The name is given especially to three of the four colleges which are intended to form a Welsh University, viz., the University College of Wales at Aberystwith, University College of South Wales at Cardiff, and the University College of North Wales at Bangor. The students of these colleges, proceeding to degrees, have to go through a course at either London, Dublin, Edinburgh, or Glasgow. At Dundee there is also a university college now connected with St. Andrews University.
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Unlocking Resistance
The resistance opposed to unlocking by the adhesion between the locking faces of the pallets and the tips or the escape wheel teeth, and in the case of lever pallets by the draw of the locking faces.
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Untermeyer
LOUIS, an American author, born in New York, in 1885. He was educated at De Witt Clinton High School, New York, and at the age of 17 entered his father's business of jewelry manufacturing. Although being actively and successively engaged in this business, he became one of the most prominent humor poets in the United States. He was a contributing editor to the perator," an occasional lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and other colleges, and a member of the Socialist party. Besides contributing many criticisms and reviews to the "New Republic" "Yale Review," New York "Evening Post," etc., he translated a compilation of "Poems of Heinrich Heine" (1917); "Modern American Verse" (1919); and wrote "The Younger Quire" (1910); "First Love" (1911); "Challenge" (1914); and "Other Poets" (1916); "Three Times" (1917); "Including Horace" (1919); etc.
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Upanishads
in Hindu sacred literature, the name given to the Vedic speculative treatises which were full of attempts to solve problems connected with the universe and the nature and destiny of man. They are 108 or more in number, each Veda having a certain number of upanishads connected with it. They constitute part of the Brahmanas or commentaries belonging to the Veda, presenting the Vedic doctrine in a comprehensive form, and being of a more dogmatic character than the rest of the Brahmanas. They vary in date like the Brahmanas, which extend, according to Max Müller, from 800 to 600 b. c. All Indian philosophers and various sects profess to derive their belief from the upanishads.
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