|
Claude McKay
Claude McKay , 1890-1948, American poet and novelist, b. Jamaica, studied at Tuskegee and the Univ. of Kansas. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay is best remembered for his poems treating racial themes. His works include the volumes of poetry Spring in New Hampshire (1920) and Harlem...
Read more
|
|
|
Tabor
Tabor in the Bible. 1 Mt. Tabor . 2 Levitical city. 3 Oak (AV mistranslates "plain" ), near Bethel, on Saul's way home after his anointing.
...
Read more
|
|
|
torpedo
torpedo in naval warfare, a self-propelled submarine projectile loaded with explosives, used for the destruction of enemy ships. Although there were attempts at subsurface warfare in the 16th and 17th cent., the modern torpedo had its origin in the efforts of David Bushnell, who, during the America...
Read more
|
|
|
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel , 1903-95, British politician. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1931 as a Conservative. As parliamentary private secretary (1937-39) to Neville Chamberlain , he supported the latter's policy of appeasem...
Read more
|
|
|
plain
plain simple, uncomplicated.plain as a pikestaff very plain. The phrase was originally (in the mid 16th century) plain as a packstaff, a packstaff being the staff on which a pedlar supported his wares while resting.plain living and high thinking denoting a frugal and philosophic lifestyle; the orig...
Read more
|
|
|
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), former U.S. government agency established in 1933 to help stabilize real estate that had depreciated during the depression and to refinance the urban mortgage debt. It granted long-term mortgage loans to some 1 million homeowners facing loss of their property. ...
Read more
|
|
|
William Levitt
William Levitt
William Levitt (1907-1994) gained national attention as the man who mass produced houses at a rate of one every 16 minutes. He was introduced to Americans on the July 3, 1950 cover of Time magazine as the "cocky rambunctious hustler" prone to exaggeration. Levitt touted his communi...
Read more
|
|
Samoyed
Samoyed , breed of hardy, muscular working dog developed in N Siberia many centuries ago. It stands from 19 to 23.5 in. (48.3-59.7 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 35 to 65 lb (15.9-29.5 kg). The weather-resistant double coat is composed of dense, woolly underhairs and a long, harsh, curl-...
Read more
|
|
|
Port Chester
Port Chester village (1990 pop. 24,728), Westchester co., SE N.Y., a suburb of New York City, on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Byram River, and on the Conn. border; settled after 1660, inc. 1868. Primarily residential, it produces some household goods. Gen. Israel Putnam had his headquarter...
Read more
|
|
|
Hans Scharoun
Hans Scharoun , 1893-1972, German architect. A member of the expressionist circle, Scharoun used a dynamic, sculptural approach to design throughout his long career. He conceived the Geschwister Scholl High School in Lunen, Westphalia (1962), as a complex of apartmentlike classrooms, built to create...
Read more
|
