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Acuff
U.S. singer, songwriter, and fiddler. Born in Maynardsville, Tenn., he turned to music after an aborted baseball career and gained immediate popularity with "The Great Speckled Bird" and "The Wabash Cannonball." Reasserting the mournful musical traditions of Southeastern rural whites, he becoming a national radio star on the Grand Ole Opry. In 1942 he and F. Rose founded Acuff-Rose Publishing, the first publishing house exclusively for country music. In 1962 Acuff was elected the first living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
truffle
Edible, underground fungus in the genus Tuber (class Ascomycetes, division Mycota), prized as a food delicacy since antiquity. Native mainly to temperate regions, truffles flourish in open woodlands on calcium-rich soil. The different species range from pea-sized to orange-sized. Truffles usually are associated with tree roots and are found up to about 1 ft (30 cm) below the soil surface. Experienced gatherers occasionally detect mature truffles by scent or by the morning and evening presence of hovering columns of small yellow flies, but more often with the help of trained pigs or dogs. The truffle is important in French cookery, and truffle gathering is an important industry in France. Truffles are among the most highly valued foods in the world. False truffles (genus Rhizopogon) form small, underground, potato-like structures under coniferous trees in parts of N. America.
tuff
Relatively soft, porous rock that is usually formed by the compaction and cementation of volcanic ash or dust. Tuff may vary greatly not only in texture but also in chemical and mineralogical composition. In some eruptions, foaming magma wells to the surface as an emulsion of hot gases and incandescent particles; the shredded pumice-like material spreads swiftly, even over gentle slopes, as a glowing avalanche (nué e ardente) that may move many miles at speeds of 100 mph (160 kph).
Whorf
U.S. linguist. Born in Winthrop, Mass., he worked professionally as a fire-prevention authority. The concept he developed (under E. Sapir's influence) of the equation of culture and language became known as the Whorf (or Sapir-Whorf) hypothesis. He maintained that a language's structure tends to condition the ways its speakers think--for example, that the way a people views time and punctuality may be influenced by the types of verb tenses in its language. Whorf was also noted for his studies of Uto-Aztecan languages, especially Hopi, and Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Wolff
German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. He was a pupil of G. W. Leibniz. He wrote numerous works in theology, psychology, botany, and physics, but is best known as the German spokesman of Enlightenment rationalism. His essays, all beginning under the title Rational Ideas, covered many subjects and expounded Leibniz's theories in popular form. He applied the rational ...
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