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( p m n n´d s) (KEY) , d. 362 B.C., Greek general of Thebes. He was a pupil of Lysias the Pythagorean, but his early life is otherwise obscure. As th...
(y ´m n z) (KEY) , c.361–316 B.C., secretary to Philip II of Macedon and to Alexander the Great. A Thracian Greek, he was capable, diplomatic, and ...
(mûr´sh ´´l -äd´ ) (KEY) , 1907–86, American philosopher and historian of comparative religion, b. Bucharest. He studied Indian philosophy a...
( g´g n) (KEY) , 1906–91, American anthropologist, b. Seattle, grad. Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1927; A.M., 1928; Ph.D., 1933). A member of the facul...
( k´h lm) (KEY) , 1909–87, American archaeologist, b. St. Paul, Minn., Ph.D. Harvard, 1941. Working with the American Museum of Natural History in ...
( z´l ) (KEY) , 1907–77, American anthropologist, b. Lincoln, Nebr. He taught anthropology at the Univ. of Kansas (1937–44), was chair of sociolo...