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Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker 1909-2005, American economist, b. Vienna, Austria. After receiving a doctorate in international and public law from Frankfurt Univ. (1931), Drucker was a financial writer for a German newspaper. In 1933 he moved to London, then to the United States (1937), where he became a ...
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imitation
imitation The acquisition of patterns of behaviour by repeating similar behaviour observed in others, not necessarily of the same species....
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Nootka
Nootka , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Nootka proper are a small group on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but the name is also used to refer to the Aht Conf...
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language acquisition
language acquisition the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observation t...
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potlatch
potlatch , ceremonial feast of the natives of the NW coast of North America, entailing the public distribution of property. The host and his relatives lavishly distributed gifts to invited guests, who were expected to accept any gifts offered with the understanding that at a future time they were to...
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Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank , 1869-1939, English art dealer, b. Hull. Beginning his career (1886) in his father's antiques firm, Duveen Brothers, he soon took over the business and expanded it to mammoth dimensions, presiding over galleries in London, Paris, and New York and speciali...
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psycholinguistics
psycholinguistics the study of psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language. An important focus of psycholinguistics is the largely unconscious application of grammatical rules that enable people to produce and comprehend intelligible sentences. Psycholinguists inves...
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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith , 1860-1929, American inventor, b. Buffalo, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia Univ. (B.S., 1879), he worked on the U.S. Census of 1880. Intrigued by the problem of tabulating vast amounts of data, he developed over the next several years a card that could be represent data through...
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book publishing
book publishing The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. There is, however, great latitude of meaning, because publishing has never emerged, and ca...
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Evergreen Park
Evergreen Park village (1990 pop. 20,874), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893.
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