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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HARLAN , . J.-

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HARLECH (perhaps for Hardd lech, fair slate, or Harleigh, an Anglicized variant)

HARLECH by The

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LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

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PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

Paramount (1902), that his lightly humorous

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TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch and picturesque

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style as a novelist brought him any real success . His

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HEALTH

health was always delicate, and he died at

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SAN

San Remo on the loth of

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DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1905 .

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