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Jones, Davy
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Davy: see Davy Jones.Jones, Robert Edmond
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887–1954, American scene designer, b. Milton, N.H. With his design in 1915 for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, a new era of scene design began in the United States. His use o...Jones, Mother
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Mother: see Jones, Mary Harris. ...Tugwell, Rexford Guy
(Encyclopedia)Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 1891–1979, American economist and political scientist, b. Chautauqua co., N.Y., grad. Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1915; Ph.D., 1922). He taught economics at th...Jones, Bobby
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Bobby: see Jones, Robert Tyre, Jr. ...Jones, Sir Edward Burne-
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Sir Edward Burne-: see Burne-Jones. ...Davy Jones
(Encyclopedia)Davy Jones, personification or spirit of the sea. The name is best known in the expression “Davy Jones's locker,” meaning the bottom of the sea, to which drowned sailors go. ...Jones, Antony Armstrong
(Encyclopedia)Jones, Antony Armstrong: see Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of. ...Dow Jones Average
(Encyclopedia)Dow Jones Average, indicators used to measure and report value changes in representative stock groupings on the New York stock exchange. There are four different averages—industrial stocks, transpor...Clements, Frederic Edward
(Encyclopedia)Clements, Frederic Edward, 1874–1945, American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of succession (see ecology), b. Lincoln, Nebr., grad. Univ. of Nebraska, 1894. From 1917 to 1941 he was in cha...Browse by Subject
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