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Andrew Carnegie   /ˈændru kˈɑrnəgi/   Listen
Andrew Carnegie

noun
1.
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919).  Synonym: Carnegie.






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"Andrew Carnegie" Quotes from Famous Books



... translated most of the works of Mr. Edmund Gosse into Maeso-Gothic. At the present moment he is undoubtedly the first favourite for the Nobel Prize, though Willie Ferrero runs him close in virtue of the patronage of Mr. Andrew Carnegie and the Dowager-Empress ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 • Various

... and yelled some kind of murdered English, and more than a dozen newsboys came on a gallop, and when the boy told them what had happened they all wanted dad to ask them questions. I told the boys dad was Andrew Carnegie, and that he was giving away millions of dollars, so when dad got to the gate of the beautiful H'astor place, the boys yelled Andrew Carnegie, and a flunkey flunked the gate open and dad and I went in, and walked up to the house. Astor was on the veranda, smoking ...
— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck



Words linked to "Andrew Carnegie" :   philanthropist, industrialist, altruist



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