Carnegie
['kɑ:nəɡɪ] or ['kɑrnə,gi]
Definition
(noun.) United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919).
(noun.) United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955).
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Examples
- Bates, Manager of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph for Robert Garrett; and Andrew Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster the world has ever known, as well as its greatest philanthropist. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1905 the Carnegie Institute granted him $10,000 yearly for ten years to continue his work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not long ago a meeting in Carnegie Hall, New York, to forward peace among nations broke up in great disorder. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And of our misuse of the Rockefellers and Carnegies--the retrospect is appalling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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