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fife
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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fife flute-like instrument. XVI. — G.
pfeife PIPE1 or F.
fifre — Swiss G.
pfifre (G.
pfeifer) piper.
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Fife ready to psyche out Dixon.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Indiana University teammates call Dane Fife is "Psycho." It reflects his no-holds...hours prior to the biggest challenge of Fife's life_guarding college basketball...This is the assignment of a lifetime, and Fife needs the defensive intensity inside him...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Fife's poetry in motion.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/4/2003; 700+ words
; ...JEREMY HODGES Fast And Bonnie: William Fife And His Yachts (BBC2); Loose Women...question for the uninitiated: Where is the Fife Regatta held? Forget the East Neuk, the...place in the Firth of Clyde, where William Fife III created some of the most beautiful...
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Fife Waterfield strikes gold with STV communications play
Magazine article from: Orange County Business Journal; 3/6/2000; ; 681 words
; ...66 million has provided Irvine-based Fife Waterfield & Co. with a hefty return...technology firm. In the deal last week, Fife Waterfield's $1.5 million investment...deal, adding another $1.7 million to Fife Waterfield's take. The investment firm...
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Fife tries to be more than bit player who replaced Joey Harrington.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; SEATTLE _ Jason Fife spent a healthy part of his early years...Camper No. 1." "I had one line," said Fife, a junior quarterback at the University...Brazil. "I'm really big abroad," Fife said with a laugh during a telephone interview...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+News+Service) "The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Fife ready to psyche out Dixon.
Newspaper article from: The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 3/31/2002; 700+ words
; ...Indiana University teammates call Dane Fife is "Psycho." It reflects his no-holds...hours prior to the biggest challenge of Fife's life_guarding college basketball...This is the assignment of a lifetime, and Fife needs the defensive intensity inside him...
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Fife named new Indiana U.-Purdue Fort Wayne head coach
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/25/2005; ; 647 words
; ...U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Dane Fife, Indiana University's men's basketball...athletics director. At just 25 years of age, Fife is now the youngest head coach in Division...Commonwealth. Although he's young, Fife said his family background helped prepare...
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Fife House Announces Major Three-Year Sponsorship From Sun Life Financial
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 5/30/2006; 700+ words
; ...Sun Life Financial Sponsorship to support Fife House's crucial Volunteer Services Program The sun in the Fife House logo is shining brightly today with...valuable multi-year commitments made in Fife House history, and will support the organization...
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Indiana's Fife personifies Hoosiers' spirit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ATLANTA _ Dane Fife looks like a basketball-playing version of an alley cat...an Iowa State player on the floor, wrestling for the ball, Fife bit the guy on the arm. Fife hustled to the team huddle and immediately chomped down on his...
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Fife-Huffman matchup a soap opera for Elite Eight.
Newspaper article from: The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 3/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...deferential and non-controversial. And Dane Fife? The Indiana guard was just angry. Welcome...anticipated battle between Huffman and Fife in particular. The tension is a year in...that quoted Huffman as saying that Dane Fife's father Dan, a successful Michigan...
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Dane Fife tough on the court; now if he can just get the romance thing right.
Newspaper article from: The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 3/6/2002; 700+ words
; ...Pete DiPrimio BLOOMINGTON, Ind. _ Dane Fife is weird. Let's get that out of the...just what we know. "I have so many Dane Fife stories," coach Mike Davis says. "But...hairstyle that teammate Kyle Hornsby says makes Fife look like a rat. "I'll buy that...
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Fife
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Fife lies on a peninsula between the Forth and...is still occasionally called the kingdom of Fife, particularly by those resisting attempts...local government reorganization of Scotland, Fife fought a successful campaign to be a region...
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fife
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
fife small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes adopted for military music by Swiss regiments serving in France in the late 15th cent. The fife was used in the British army until the end of the 19th cent. The piccolo has largely replaced the fife in modern use.
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fife rails
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
fife rails. 1. The rails erected on the bulwarks which bounded the poop and quarterdeck of old sailing warships, East Indiamen...
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Turner, Otha
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Williams, who played a cane fife, something Turner had never...Williams taught Turner to make a fife, and the boy then learned to...own. He constructed his own fifes from lengths of bamboo he found...tradition of the African-American fife-and-drum band proved especially...
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Standard Motor Products, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...Motor Products was founded in 1919 by Elias Fife and Ralph Van Allen. The partnership opened...partnership was dissolved in 1925, with Fife as sole proprietor until the following...and logo until 1936, when he sold it to Fife. Standard Motor Products introduced its...
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