(n) United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944), Syn. Ida M. Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarbell, Ida Tarbell
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n. [ L. ] (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene. [ 1913 Webster ]