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1842–1924, English economist. At Cambridge, where he taught from 1885 to 1908, he exerted great influence on the development of economic thought of ...
(r z f l p n´ düsh n´) (KEY) , 1769–1852, French educator in the United States, a Roman Catholic nun, b. Grenoble, France. She entered the order ...
(gr r) (KEY) , 1861–1933, American educator, b. Peoria, Ill., grad. Princeton (B.A. 1882; Ph.D., 1893) and studied at the Univ. of Berlin and Prince...
(älfr d´ g y m´ gäbr l´, dôrs ´) (KEY) , 1801–52, French dandy. The son of a Bonapartist general, he went to England in 1821, where he met M...
(h k´l t, h k´ lw t) (KEY) , 1552?–1616, English geographer. He graduated in 1574 from Oxford, where he later lectured on geography. A passionate ...
(vy k´t r l vôv´y ch kôrch´noi) (KEY) , 1931–, Russian-Swiss chess master. A long-time leading Soviet player, he lost to Anatoly Karpov in 1974...