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(sm l´ t) (KEY) , 1721–71, Scottish novelist. After studying at Glasgow he came to London in 1739. Failing to get his tragedy The Regicide produced...
1940, passed by the U.S. Congress as the Alien Registration Act of 1940. The act, which made it an offense to advocate or belong to a group that advoc...
(sy ´rä n vä´thä th m ´r thä) (KEY) , mountain range, NW Venezuela, a spur of the Andes extending c.200 mi (320 km) NE from the Colombian bord...
1865–1946, Anglo-American author, b. Millville, N.J. After 1888 he lived in England, studied at Oxford, and became a man of letters. His brief and e...
1805–44, American Mormon leader, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, b. Sharon, Vt. When he was a boy his family moved t...
(s g´ r st) (KEY) , 1891–1957, American medical historian and writer, b. Paris, M.D. Univ. of Zürich, 1917. He taught history of medicine at the u...