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Collier's Encyclopedia ( full title Collier's Encyclopedia with Bibliography and Index ) was a United States-based general encyclopedia published by Crowell, Collier and Macmillan.
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In the 20th century, successful competitors included Collier's Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, and the World Book Encyclopedia.
A well-known comparison is that of Kenneth Kister, who gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of the Britannica with two comparable encyclopaedias, Collier's Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana.
In the accuracy category, the Britannica received one " D " and seven " A " s, Encyclopedia Americana received eight " A " s, and Collier's received one " D " and seven " A " s ; thus, Britannica received an average score of 92 % for accuracy to Americanas 95 % and Collier's 92 %.
After a more thorough qualitative comparison of all three encyclopaedias, Kister recommended Collier's Encyclopedia as the superior encyclopaedia, primarily on the strength of its writing, balanced presentation and easy navigation.
Collier's has not been in print since 1998 ; the Encyclopedia Americana was last published in 2006 and Britannica announced the discontinuation of its print editions in 2012.
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Not much has changed about spaniels in general over the years, as can be seen in this 1921 entry in Collier's New Encyclopedia:
Collier & Son Company published Collier's New Encyclopedia from 1902 – 1929, initially in 16 volumes and later in 10 volumes.
Collier's 11 volume National Encyclopedia ( 1932 – 1950 ) replaced Collier's New Encyclopedia.
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Collier's, too, closed by the end of 1956, allowing Packard to devote his full attention to writing books.
In 1950 Crowell, Collier and Macmillan published the 20 volume Collier's Encyclopedia ( full title Collier's Encyclopedia with Bibliography and Index ).
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* Last Laugh, Mr. Moto ( 1942 )-Originally serialized in Collier's Weekly in 1941 under the title Mercator Island.
* 30 May — after four years of inactivity, Joe Goss finally defends his Heavyweight Championship of America title against Paddy Ryan at Collier's Station, West Virginia.
The US serialisation of this story was a four-part shortened version in Collier's Weekly between May 4 ( Volume 117, Number 18 ) and May 25, 1946 ( Volume 117, Number 21 ) under the title of The Outraged Heart with illustrations by Mario Cooper.
was the title of a famous series of 1950s magazine articles in Collier's detailing Wernher von Braun's plans for manned spaceflight.
The book was first serialised in the US in Collier's Weekly in ten parts from November 12, 1938 ( Volume 102, Number 20 ) to January 14, 1939 ( Volume 103, Number 2 ) under the title Murder For Christmas with illustrations by Mario Cooper.
The novel was first serialised in Collier's Weekly in three installments from 6 May ( Volume 113, Number 19 ) to 20 May 1944 ( Volume 113, Number 21 ) under the title Come and Be Hanged!
The novel was first serialised in the US in Collier's Weekly in three abridged instalments from October 14 ( Volume 136, Number 8 ) to November 11, 1955 ( Volume 136, Number 10 ) under the title Hickory Dickory Death with illustrations by Robert Fawcett.
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The concept of a lunar rover predated Apollo, with a 1952 – 1954 series in Collier's Weekly magazine by Wernher von Braun and others, " Man Will Conquer Space Soon!
* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy-PDF facsimile of an 1832 edition of Collier's script, with Cruickshank's illustrations
Colt never claimed to have invented the revolver ; his design was a more practical adaption of Collier's earlier revolving flintlock incorporating a locking pawl to keep the cylinder in line with the barrel.
He interpolated the name of Shakespeare in a genuine letter at Dulwich, and the spurious entries in Alleyn's Diary were proved to be by Collier's hand when the sale of his library in 1884 gave access to a transcript he had made of the Diary with interlineations corresponding with the Dulwich forgeries.
Ganzel has written in response to the Freemans ' study, " He ( Freeman ) assumes Collier's guilt and that leads to looking at Collier's work with the expectation of finding fraud .... my study revealed what was the irrefutable evidence that he was a victim of a conspiracy of which Frederick Madden was a part ... Freeman starts with a criminal ; I tried to end up with a man.
A condensed version of the film story appeared in Collier's magazine on November 13, 1942, credited to Hitchcock and writer Harry Sylvester, with Steinbeck credited with the " original screen story ".
Trenchant articles dealing with trusts, high finance, impure foods and abusive railroad practices began to appear in the daily newspapers and in such popular magazines as McClure's and Collier's.
In 1944 Karski published Courier from Poland: The Story of a Secret State ( with a selection featured in Collier's six weeks before the book's release ), in which he related his experiences in wartime Poland.
His entry in the Dictionary of Art ( 1996 vol 7, p569 ), by Geoffrey Ashton, refers to the invisibility of his brush strokes as a " rather unexciting and flat use of paint " but contrasts that with " Collier's strong and surprising sense of colour " which " created a disconcerting verisimilitude in both mood and appearance ".
Collier's views on religion and ethics are interesting for their comparison with the views of Thomas and Julian Huxley, both of whom gave Romanes lectures on that subject.
Connolly, was a radical American investigative journalist who was associated for many years with Collier's Weekly and the muckrakers.
He submitted illustrations, sketches, and other works for publication with Western themes to Collier's and Harper's Weekly, as his recent Western experiences ( highly exaggerated ) and his hearty, breezy “ cowboy ” demeanor gained him credibility with the eastern publishers looking for authenticity.
An edition, with memorial introduction and notes, was included ( 1869 ) in Dr AB Grosart's Fuller Worthies Library ; and the Metamorphosis of Tobacco was included in JP Collier's Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature, vol.
The Bengals lost their first meeting with the Browns 30 – 27 in 1970, and Brown was booed when he did not come on the field to shake Collier's hand after the game.
" The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.
He first attracted attention with his illustrations of the Spanish-American War, published in Scribner's and Harper's magazines and in Collier's Weekly, gaining especial prominence with the series, " Men of the Army and Navy ," and a portrait of Colonel Roosevelt.
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The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.
Tackle Richard Collier's career ended in early September when he was brutally attacked and shot 14 times.
On February 17, 1954, letters from the producer and nominee questioned its inclusion in the category, as it was based on the short story, " The Gift of Cochise ", by the nominee, Mr. L ' Amour, published in Collier's magazine on July 5, 1952.
The rights to " Lordsburg " were bought by John Ford soon after it was published in Collier's magazine on 10 April 1937.
The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde from a short story by Wilde that originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.
In 1916, " Mistress of Etiquette " Emily Post was commissioned by Collier's magazine to cross the United States on the Lincoln Highway and write about it.
He was attacked on both counts, and was one of the prime targets of Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.
A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson was originally published as a short story in Collier's magazine, January 7, 1950, and was reprinted in 1968 as a short story in her book Indian Country.
He first photographed for Collier's Weekly, before switching to Life after he was fired by Collier's.
The story " I'm Crazy ", which was published in the December 22, 1945, issue of Collier's, contained material that was later used in The Catcher in the Rye.
A veteran of Collier's magazine, Capa was among the first wave of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
' summarises Collier's supposed forgeries and quotes the note dictated by Collier to his daughter shortly before his death: ' I have written much in verse and prose, but can confidently say that I never produced a line, either in verse or prose that was calculated to be injurious either to morality or religion '.
Ganzel suggest Collier's so-called ' confession ' was in reference to the fact that he had not accepted certain Christian beliefs.
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