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other factors than floor area alone on capacity 
is well taken and to be remembered. 

I am sure that not even the authors (neither 
of whom can be characterized properly as a 
modest man) would call this a great book. 
I will not even call it a good book, because 

that adjective is out of place when applied 
to a writing of this sort. But it is a useful 
book, and its usefulness, like that of the type 
of building it describes, is not of a temporary 
kind.—W i l l i a m M. Randall, U. S. Merchant 
Marine Academy, King's Point, N.Y. 

Names and Places in the N e w s 

World Words; Recommended Pronunciations. 
By William Cabell Greet. 2d ed. N e w 
Y o r k , Columbia University Press, 1948. 
6o8p. 
This new edition of Professor Greet's 

World Words has been revised and greatly 
enlarged. N o w listing about 25,000 entries, 
it contains more than twice as many as the 
1944 edition. T h e dictionary might be more 
precisely titled "names and places in the news" 
since more than 95 per cent of the entries are 

for personal and place names of current in-
terest. 

Phonetic and "spelled-out" pronunciations 
are given f o r each entry. W h e n there has 
been considerable disagreement over a certain 
pronunciation, Professor Greet inserts an ex-
planation for his particular choice. World 
Words is a highly useful compilation of pro-
nunciations, many of which are not to be 
found easily in other reference w o r k s . — C a r l 
Reed, Columbia University Libraries. 

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