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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 60, 11 March 1903, Page 3

THE GREAT "QUESTION-ANSWERER." centuries the Sphinx has stood as the symbol of riddles, unanswerable questions, and silence. The great questioner of the centuries finds its answerer in "THE CENTURY DICTIONARY ifc CYCLOPEDIA & ATLAS." Try it with the first thing that comes into your head. Try it with hard questions, but be fair about it There is necessarily a limit to thecontents of its ten volumes, but it has puzzled greater heads than ours tofind this limit. "Century" owners know that the daily question i.s. answered without trouble from its pages, and they have learned more and more to look for things they don't expect to finer, until, as one of our subscribers puts it, "It is always the unexpected in ' The Century.' I look up common words and find uncommon meanings. I turn doubtfully to a place where I hardly expect to find a fugitive fact, and find it anything but fugitive. In short, I have come to believe that I can't think of anything that's not findable in its pages." 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