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(Encyclopedia) White Russia: see Belarus.

(Encyclopedia) white whale: see beluga.

(Encyclopedia) Chinese white: see zinc oxide.

(Encyclopedia) zinc white: see zinc oxide.

(Encyclopedia) white metal: see Babbitt metal.

(Encyclopedia) white vitriol: see zinc sulfate. ...

(Encyclopedia) White Rock, city (1991 pop. 16,314), SE British Columbia, Canada, on Georgia Strait and on the U.S. border. The city is a customs port and resort center with a residential area. ...

(Encyclopedia) Shinn, Everett, 1876–1953, American painter and magazine illustrator, b. Woodstown, N.J., studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Moving to New York City, Shinn created a series of mur...

(Encyclopedia) White, Walter Francis, 1893–1955, American civil-rights leader, b. Atlanta, Ga., grad. Atlanta Univ., 1916. From 1931 until his death he was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement...

(Encyclopedia) white-collar crime, term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers) in the course o...