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(b r´t l ´l n) (KEY) , 1899–1979, Swedish economist, b. Klippan. A professor at several Swedish universities, he wrote the influential Interregio...
(d r nt´, dy –) (KEY) , 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted t...
1737?–1785, 2d president of King’s College (now Columbia Univ.), b. England, educated at Oxford. He was ordained a priest in 1761 and went to King...
1898–2001, American educator, b. Baltimore, grad. Bryn Mawr, 1920, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1926. From 1926 to 1930 she taught at Bryn Mawr and wa...
1878–1934, Russian educator. After graduating from Moscow Univ. and attending the Moscow Agricultural Institute, Shatsky organized (1905) a colony f...
(th ´l s n´´) (KEY) or Tasmanian wolf, carnivorous marsupial, or pouched mammal, of Tasmania. The thylacine is often cited as an example of conver...