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Thomas Rust UNDERWOOD, Congress, KY (1898-1956)

Senate Years of Service: 1951-1952 Party: Democrat UNDERWOOD Thomas Rust , a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., March 3, 1898; attended the…

Vezina Trophy—Leading Goalkeeper

Vezina Trophy—Leading Goalkeeper1956–60 Jacques Plante, Montreal1961 Johnny Bower, Toronto1962 Jacques Plante, Montreal1963 Glenn Hall, Chicago1964 Charlie Hodge, Montreal1965 Terry Sawchuk—…

Top-Selling Business Software, 2005

Rank Title Publisher 1. MS Office 2003 Student/Teacher Ed Microsoft 2. MS Office 2004 Student/Teacher Ed Microsoft 3. MS Office 2003 Pro Upgrade Microsoft 4. .Mac…

Lawrence, D. H.

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885–1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction. Lawrence believed that industrialized Western culture was…

Wilde, Oscar

(Encyclopedia) Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first…

Culbertson, Ely

(Encyclopedia) Culbertson, ElyCulbertson, Elyēˈlē kŭlˈbərtsən [key], 1891–1955, American authority on contract bridge, b. Romania. His father was an American engineer then living in Romania, and his…

Currier & Ives

(Encyclopedia) Currier & Ives, American lithographers and print publishers, who produced highly popular hand-colored prints of contemporary scenes and events in American life. Nathaniel Currier,…

Huntington, Ellsworth

(Encyclopedia) Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876–1947, American geographer, b. Galesburg, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1897, M.A. Harvard, 1902, Ph.D. Yale, 1909. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (…

Johnson, Lionel Pigot

(Encyclopedia) Johnson, Lionel Pigot, 1867–1902, British poet and critic, b. Broadstairs, Kent, educated at Oxford. He lived an ascetic, scholarly life in London, converting to Roman Catholicism in…