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(Nora Koreff), 1920–87, American ballerina, b. New York City. Kaye studied with Michel Fokine and Antony Tudor. She joined the Ballet Theatre in 194...
(py r s môN´ f rny ´) (KEY) , 1712–68, Parisian type founder. Fournier devised the first point system for measuring and naming sizes of type in 1...
(yûr´k z, –k s) (KEY) , 1837–1905, American financier, b. Philadelphia. He began his business career as a clerk in a Philadelphia grain commissi...
1865–1946, American economist, b. Sterling, Ill., studied at DePauw Univ. and at the Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1900. He taught ...
( ´l f l´ p h k´sh r) (KEY) , 1879–1952, Swedish economic historian. Influenced by the neoclassical economics of Alfred Marshall, Heckscher advo...
or Chuang-tze (both: jwäng-dz ) (KEY) , c.369–c.286 B.C., Chinese Taoist writer. Little is known about his life. He was a native of the state of Me...