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Vinson, Frederick Moore

(Encyclopedia)Vinson, Frederick Moore, 1890โ€“1953, 13th chief justice of the United States (1946โ€“53), b. Louisa, Ky. He received his law degree from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky (1911). He served (1923โ€...

Vinson Massif

(Encyclopedia)Vinson Massif, peak, 16,860 ft (5,139 m) high, W Antarctica, in the Ellsworth Mts.; highest peak in Antarctica.

Moore

(Encyclopedia)Moore, city (1990 pop. 40,761), Cleveland co., central Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City; settled 1889 as Verbeck, renamed Moore, inc. 1893. Its manufactures include lightning- and surge-protection equ...

Moore, Archie

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Archie, 1913โ€“98, American boxer, b. Benoit, Miss., as Archie Lee Wright. He claimed to have been born in 1916 in Collinsville, Ill. He first boxed professionally as a middleweight in 1935 or ...

Moore, Barrington

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Barrington, 1913โ€“2005, American sociologist and political scientist. Moore wrote a number of books on historical sociology that focus on Soviet society. Based at the Russian Research Center a...

Moore, Brian

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Brian, 1921โ€“99, Canadian-American novelist, b. Belfast, Northern Ireland. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he was a reporter for the Montreal Gazette. He later moved to the United States...

Moore, Edward

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Edward, 1712โ€“57, English dramatist. He wrote two comedies in the sentimental tradition, The Foundling (1748) and Gil Blas (1751), but his reputation as a dramatist rests primarily on his pros...

Moore, George

(Encyclopedia)Moore, George, 1852โ€“1933, English author, b. Ireland. As a young man he lived in Paris, studying at various art schools. Inspired by Zola, Flaubert, Turgenev, and the 19th-century French realists, M...

Moore, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Henry, 1898โ€“1986, English sculptor. Moore's early sculpture was angular and rough, strongly influenced by pre-Columbian art. About 1928 he evolved a more personal style which has gained him a...

Moore, Marianne

(Encyclopedia)Moore, Marianne, 1887โ€“1972, American poet, b. St. Louis, grad. Bryn Mawr College, 1909. She lived mostly in New York City, working first as a librarian and then as editor of the Dial magazine (1925โ...