1) Hassel, Odd. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Hassel, Odd, (od hasīl) (KEY) , 1897-1981, Norwegian chemist, b. Christiania (now Oslo), grad. Oslo Univ. (1920), Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin (1924). After pursuing X-ray... 2) plywood. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...plywood, manufactured board composed of an odd number of thin sheets of wood glued together under pressure with grains of the successive layers at right angles. Laminated... 3) Nevelson, Louise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Nevelson, Louise, 1900-1988, American sculptor, b. Kiev, Russia. Using odd pieces of wood, found objects, cast metal and other materials, Nevelson constructed huge... 4) Fillmore, Millard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...(July, 1850-Mar., 1853), b. Locke (now Summerhill), N.Y. Because he was compelled to work at odd jobs at an early age to earn a living his education was irregular... 5) Service, Robert William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...novelist, b. England, educated at the Univ. of Glasgow. He went to Canada in 1897 and held odd jobs in British Columbia and at White Horse in the Yukon. His famous... 6) puffer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes). The puffers, or swellfishes, named... 7) hoof. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...In the even-toed ungulates, such as swine, deer, and cattle, the hoof is cloven; in the odd-toed ungulates, such as the horse and the rhinoceros, it is solid. Hoofs... 8) rhinoceros. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...two horns. The rhinoceros family, along with the horse and tapir families, forms the order of odd-toed hoofed mammals. The five living species, which once ranged... 9) Reed, Sir Carol. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...characters at the end of their tethers, frequently in a postwar environment, in films such as Odd Man Out (1946), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), Outcast... 10) tapir. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...not related to the pig, but to the horse and the rhinoceros, with which it forms the order of odd-toed hoofed mammals. The body of the tapir is rounded and covered... |