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(s mk ´v ch) (KEY) , 1867–1951, American social worker, b. Chestnut Hill, Mass., grad. Boston Univ., 1890. After further study at Radcliffe, Columb...
(m ´g s) (KEY) , Samaritan sorcerer who attempted to buy spiritual power from the apostles. From this comes the term simony. He is mentioned in the A...
(ändr ´ä däl p t´ts ) (KEY) , 1647–1709, Italian painter. Pozzo was a Jesuit priest and leading exponent of the baroque style. He was celebrate...
1794–1835, English genre and portrait painter, b. Halifax, N.S., studied in Boston with his uncle Gilbert Stuart, and later abroad. He was greatly i...
1921–, American chemist, b. Fort Worth, Tex., Ph.D. Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1949. As a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medic...
(s ´m nztoun) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 58,323), Western Cape, SW South Africa, on False Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a seaside resort and ...