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1880–1921, British labor organizer, b. Glasgow, Scotland. Working in her father’s draper’s shop, she became prominent in the shop assistants’ ...
(m ´b s, Ger. mö´b s) (KEY) ,(1790–1868), German mathematician and astronomer, b. Schulpforta, Saxony. A professor of astronomy at the Univ. of...
1870–1919, American labor leader, b. Braidwood, Ill. He became a miner at the age of 12 and in 1885 joined the Knights of Labor. When the United Min...
(märch l´l mälp ´g ) (KEY) , 1628–94, Italian anatomist. A pioneer in the use of the microscope, he made many valuable observations on the stru...
(v l´h lm m ´ r-lüp´k ) (KEY) , 1861–1936, Swiss philologist. Meyer-Lübke taught at the universities of Jena, Vienna, and Bonn. He was the auth...
1837–1915, English lexicographer. In 1879 he assumed the editorship of the New English Dictionary (the Oxford English Dictionary), which was his lif...