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1874–1946, American educator and editor, b. Detroit, grad. Michigan State College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1895, M.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1898, P...
1903–89, American geneticist, b. Wahoo, Nebr., grad. Univ. of Nebraska (B.S., 1926; M.S., 1927), Ph.D. Cornell, 1931. Beadle taught (1931–36) biol...
1850–1916, American political reformer and college president, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Columbia, 1870. He entered his father’s tea and silk import...
or Tientsin (both: tyän´j n´) (KEY) , city (1994 est. pop. 4,720,500), NE China. In E central Hebei prov., it is a politically independent unit (4,...
(r n ´ k y ´) (KEY) , 1799–1838, French explorer in Africa. He was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return. The son of poor French peasant...
1786–1847, British explorer in N Canada whose disappearance caused a widespread search of the Arctic. Entering the navy in 1801, he fought in the ba...