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(sn ´d n) (KEY) , 1864–1937, British statesman. Born to poverty, he was a civil service clerk until crippled by a spinal ailment. Resigning in 1893...
research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortu...
(j vän´n bät s´tä p äts t´tä) (KEY) , 1682–1754, Italian painter. An exponent of the Venetian school, Piazzetta combined soft colors with a...
liberal movement within American Protestantism that attempted to apply biblical teachings to problems associated with industrialization. It took form ...
1913–94, American biologist, b. Hartford, Conn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1941. He studied zoology before teaching biology at the Univ. of Chicago (1...
(zhôrzh, äb ´) (KEY) , 1894–1966, Belgian astrophysicist, mathematician, and Catholic priest. In 1927 he became professor of astrophysics at the ...