These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Webb City, Webster, Webster.
a city of Missouri, in Jasper co. It is on the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads. It is the center of an important mining region. It is in the lead and zinc district of southwest Missouri, and in the neighborhood of the city are over 200 mining plants. Other industries include a foundry, machine shops , iron works, a flour mill, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,817; (1920) 7,807.
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in physiology, that there is always a constant ratio between the strength of the stimulus and the intensity of the sensations. The stronger the stimulus already applied , the stronger must be the increase of the stimulus in order to cause a perceptible increase of the sensation .
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a city of Massachusetts, in Worcester co. It is on the French river, and on the New York , New Haven , and Hartford and the Boston and Albany railroads. Its industries include woolen mills, stove factories, yarn mills, etc. It has a public library and other public buildings. Pop. ( 1910) 11,509; (1920) 13,258.
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HENRY KITCHELL, an American author, born at Evanston, Ill., in 1875. He was graduated from Hamilton College in 1897, and in 1897 and 1898 was an instructor of rhetoric at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. He wrote "The Short Line War" (with Samuel Merwin, 1899); "The Banker and the Bear"; "The Story of a Corner in Land" (1900); "Calumet 'K'" (with Samuel Merwin, 1901); "Roger Drake, Captain of Industry" (1903); "The Duke of Cameron Avenue" (1904); "Traitor and Loyalist" (1904); "Comra (1904); "Comrade John" (with Samuel Merwin, 1907); "The Whispering Man" (1908); "A King in Khaki" (1909); "The Sky Man" (1910); "The Girl in the Other Seat" (1911); "June Madness" (1912); "The Ghost Girl" (1913); "The Butterfly" (1914); "The Real Adventure" (1916); "The Painted Seene" (1916); "The Thoroughbred" (1917); "An American Family" (1918).
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JOHN, an English dramatist of the first part of the 17th century. He was clerk of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, and a member of the Company of Merchant Tailors. His works are: "The White Devil" (1612); "The Devil's Law-Case" (1623); "The Duchess of Malfy" (1623); "Appius and Virginia" (1654); "The Thracian Wender" (1661); and "A Cure for a Cuckold," a comedy (1661). He also assisted Dekker in writing the "History of Sir and the comedies Thomas Wyatt," "Westward Hoe!" and "Northward Hoe!" By some critics he is accounted second only to Shakespeare.
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NOAH, an American lexicographer; born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16, 1758. He was graduated at Yale College in 1778, having served in the Revolutionary War in his junior year; was admitted to the bar in 1781, but 'relinquished it for teaching in 1782; and in 1788 settled in New York as a journalist. Thence he removed to New Haven in 1798, and thence to Amherst in 1812, returning to New Haven in 1822. In 1783-1785 he published his "Grammatical Institute of the English Language," in three parts, "Webster's Spelling Book," "A Plain and Comprehensive Grammar," ,',, and "An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking." All these works had an enormous sale. His literary activity activity was henceforth very great, the works issued by him during the next few years including important legal and linguistic studies. In 1806 he published an 8vo. English dictionary, which led the way for his great work, the "American Dictionary of the English Language." In preparing this work he visited England, and he finished the dictionary during an eight months' residence in Cambridge. In June, 1825, he returned to America. The first edition of his dictionary was published in 1828 (2 vols. 4to.); it was followed by a second in 1840; since which time a number of editions have appeared, and the work has grown into the greatly improved and enlarged "International Dictionary." He died in New Haven, Conn., May 28, 1843.
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a city of Missouri, in St. Louis co. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad. It is chiefly a residential suburb of St. Louis and contains several educational institutions and a public library. Pop. (1910) 7,080; (1920) 9,474.
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ALEXANDER, a Lord Chancellor of England, ennobled as Lord Loughborough and Earl of Rosslyn; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 13, 1733; the son of a Scotch judge. He passed as advocate, but was called to the English bar in 1757. He entered Parlia ment in 1762, took part in the great Douglas cause, and in 1771 left the opposition to become a strenuous supporter of Lord North as solicitor-general. He supported the American war policy, and was made chief-justice as Lord Loughborough (1780); but in 1784, disappointed of the chancellorship, passed over to Fox, and sought favor with the Prince of Wales. Insinuating and unscrupulous, he next made friends with Pitt, by whom he was made Lord Chancellor (1793), but to whom he played false. Addington gave him his earldom (1801). He died near Windsor, Jan. 2, 1805.
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wej, a well known device consisting of a piece of wood, metal, or other hard substance, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other. The wedge is used for splitting timber, quarrying rock, and for raising great weights or exerting intense pressure. A quick tap on the head of a wedge produces more effect than a heavier, sluggish blow. It is supposed that the tap sets up a tremor or vibration in the inclosing edges of the resisting substance, and that the wedge advances before the vibrating material can return. Something of the sort may be noticed in driving a nail. Lively taps force a nail into hard timber when heavy blows fail. Other conditions being equal, the thinner the wedge the greater its power. The sharp edge of cutting tools is an application of the principle of the wedge. The uselessness of a wedge until it has effected an entrance, and its power afterward, have given rise to several popular expressions, as "the entering wedge," "wedging his way in," etc.
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Josiah (1730-1795), a celebrated English potter. He was the son of a Staffordshire potter and learned his father's business. An incurable lameness forced him to give up standing at the potter's wheel. He turned his attention to decorating. He discovered a method of mixing and baking that resulted in the production of a stoneware so fine in texture and so hard that exquisite works of art could be reproduced on its surface. He made not only white and semi-transparent stoneware, but queen's-ware in cream colors; basalt ware of Egyptian black, suitable for plaques, seals, busts, and medallions; red ware, and mottled ware. One of his specialties was a jasper ware resembling white terra cotta . Cobalt blue, lilac, greens, and yellows were favorite colors. Wedgewood ware was famous for its decorations, both raised and depressed, that is, cameos and intaglios. One of his Portland vases was valued at $250, and was a present fit for a duchess. When wealth and fame came to Wedgewood, he founded the village of Etruria for his workmen and aimed to educate their children to thrift and in designing, decorating, and other principles of the potter's art. See Pottery
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