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place a place for everything, and everything in its place proverbial saying, mid 17th century; often associated with Samuel Smiles, and famously cited in Mrs Beeton's
The Book of Household Management (1861)
place in the sun a position of favour or advantage. The phrase is traceable to Pascal
Pensées, translated by J. Walker in 1688.
In later use, it is associated with the German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), and Germany's imperial ambitions.
there's no place like home proverbial saying, late 16th century; the saying is found earlier in Greek, in the work of the Greek poet Hesiod (
c.700 bc).
See also
another place,
pride of place,
between a rock and a hard place,
a woman's place is in the home.
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Speeds up, deaths down? Time will tell; Results of new road limits won't be clear for a while.(NEWS)
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Speed limit debate is revving up in Indiana.
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Speed limit plan raised; Input from local bodies
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; ...create national uniformity in speed limits, and help achieve the...road conditions, and calculate speed limits that were consistent...greater discretion in setting speed limits. However, a limit existed...traffic operations inspector John Kelly said the new law would...
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Speed bumps ineffective at slowing street traffic
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Speed, James
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speed
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
speed of a computer. A rather vaguely defined term that is often used to indicate...the central processing unit to execute instructions rapidly. The CPU's speed is itself dependent on numerous factors such as word length, instruction...
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toggling speed
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
toggling speed Another name for switching speed .
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switching speed
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
switching speed ( toggling speed ) A measure of the rate at which a given electronic logic device is capable of changing the logic state of its output in response to changes at its input. It is a function of the delay encountered within the device...
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