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neo-Thomism

(Encyclopedia)neo-Thomism: see Thomas Aquinas, Saint. ...

Gresham's law

(Encyclopedia)Gresham's law: see under Gresham, Sir Thomas. ...

Matthew, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Matthew, Thomas: see Rogers, John (1500?–1555). ...

Braidwood, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Braidwood, Thomas, 1715–1806, English educator, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh. He established (1760) at Edinburgh the first school in Great Britain for deaf-mutes, moving it to London in 1783. ...

Tate, Allen

(Encyclopedia)Tate, Allen (John Orley Allen Tate), 1899–1979, American poet and critic, b. Winchester, Ky., grad. Vanderbilt Univ., 1922. He was one of the founders and editors of the Fugitive (1922–25), a maga...

Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth

(Encyclopedia)Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth shwärtsˈkôpf [key], 1915–2006, German lyric soprano. After studying music in Berlin she was trained by Maria Ivogün. She sang with the Berlin State Opera (1938–42) and b...
 

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