James P. Burchfield. March 31, 1902. -- Ordered to be Printed
Title | James P. Burchfield. March 31, 1902. -- Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | |
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Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1076 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Caught in the Web of Words
Title | Caught in the Web of Words PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300089196 |
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)
Oxford English Dictionary
Title | Oxford English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Simpson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2002-04-18 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780195218893 |
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Title | Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil PDF eBook |
Author | Worrall Reed Carter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Logistics, Naval |
ISBN |
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans of Pennsylvania for the Year
Title | Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans of Pennsylvania for the Year PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania. Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Children of military personnel |
ISBN |
Contains information on various Pennsylvania military orphan schools including description, activities and finances with some registers of students.
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe
Title | American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Adler |
Publisher | The Museum of Modern Art |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2013-08-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 087070852X |
The Museum of Modern Art is known for its prescient focus on the avant-garde art of Europe, but in the first half of the twentieth century it was also acquiring work by Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred Stieglitz, and other, less well-known American artists whose work sometimes fits awkwardly under the avant garde umbrella. American Modern presents a fresh look at MoMA’s holdings of American art from that period. The still lifes, portraits, and urban, rural, and industrial landscapes vary in style, approach, and medium: melancholy images by Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth bump against the eccentric landscapes of Charles Burchfield and the Jazz Age sculpture of Elie Nadelman. Yet a distinct sensibility emerges, revealing a side of the Museum that may surprise a good part of its audience and throwing light on the cultural preoccupations of the rapidly changing American society of the day.