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visible gaseous product of incomplete combustion. Smoke varies with its source, but it usually comprises hot gas and suspended particles of carbon and...
or slime fungus, a heterotrophic organism once regarded as a fungus but later classified with the Protista. In a recent system of classification based...
1924–, Czech-born novelist. Skvorecky’s first novel, The Cowards (1958; tr. 1970), was banned after its publication because of its ironic portrait...
1771–1845, English clergyman, writer, and wit, ordained in the Church of England in 1794. In 1798 he went as a tutor to Edinburgh, where he studied ...
(sk ´k ) (KEY) , village (1990 pop. 59,432), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1888. Its varied products include comm...
fund established (1934) by automobile executive Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. as a philanthropic institution supporting research in various areas. In its early...