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(ky närd´) (KEY) , 1787–1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he...
(s môN´ d kôl n´) (KEY) , d. 1546, Parisian printer. He was associated with the elder Henri Estienne and continued his work. Colines used elegant...
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...
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 ...
(kârnz) (KEY) , 1823–75, Irish economist, a follower of John Stuart Mill. His Slave Power (1862), a defense of the North in the American Civil War,...
1901–72, American librarian, b. Johannesburg, South Africa. After studying philosophy at Harvard, Clapp worked for the Library of Congress (1922–5...