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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2017
"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The best are The World Book En cyclopedia, which has dominated the grade-school market in recent years, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia.
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“Oh, no; this will be quite sufficient,” and taking out pencil and paper the inquirer began to write rapidly with the cyclopedia propped before her.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.
One of the functions of the modern library is that of a huge cyclopedia, kept continually up to date by the acquisition of new material—books, periodicals, prints, pamphlets, clippings, publicity matter and manuscripts.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.