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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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hector play the bully, (tr.) bully. XVII. f.
Hector name of ‘the prop or stay of Troy’, son of Priam and Hecuba, sb. use of Gr. adj.
hēktōr holding fast, f.
ékhein hold; f. the use of the sb. (common in late XVII) for ‘swaggering fellow’.
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Hector Communications Corporation Reports Potential Loss on St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives Stock and Reports Annual Meeting Results.
PR Newswire; 6/7/1999; 700+ words
; HECTOR, Minn., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Hector Communications Corporation (Amex: HCT) reported that it...of the stock of SPBC's shareholders materially reduced. Hector's management estimated the reduction of value of its SPBC...
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Hector Communications Corporation Comments On Recent Schedule 13D Filings By Phillip Goldstein and Andrew Dakos.
PR Newswire; 11/14/2005; 700+ words
; HECTOR, Minn., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hector Communications Corporation today commented on recent Schedule...filed an amended Schedule 13D that included a letter to Hector's Board of Directors offering to purchase all outstanding...
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HECTOR
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/10/2003; ; 498 words
; Foodie HECTOR By JIM PRICE Special to the Journal Sentinel Friday, January 10, 2003 Who he is: Hector the fisherman What he does: He's the inspiration behind Hector's restaurant in Wauwatosa Rob Messinger always...
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Hector: king of the barnyard.(Cartoon)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hector was a proud rooster. He ruled the chicken coop. He was the...He's so brave and strong." "I always feel safe when Hector is around." Hector strutted around the yard. Nothing missed his gaze. He was...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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HECTOR STARTS SLOWLY
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 8/21/1991; ; 501 words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 08-21-1991 HECTOR STARTS SLOWLY By BARBARA BARKER Date...floor, passing within inches of Johnny Hector's right shoulder. "That's about all I need now," Hector said, shaking his head in disbelief...
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The Hector memorials of 1906: tributes to Sir James Hector and Douglas Hector.
Magazine article from: Alberta History; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Sir James Hector cairn, now nearing 100 years of age...the scientific contributions of James Hector as a member of the pre-confederation...isolated on the top of the pass named after Hector's near fatal accident on August 29...
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HECTOR IS JETS' JOHNNY ON THE SPOT
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/26/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 12-26-1991 HECTOR IS JETS' JOHNNY ON THE SPOT -- MAKES...was no surreal voice commanding Johnny Hector -- If you will it, ye will run -- nor...sign indicating the big things to come. Hector just had a feeling before the Jets' 23...
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Hector Communications to Offer One Voice's MobileVoice Service.
Business Wire; 11/18/2004; 700+ words
; ...Multimedia markets, today announced that Hector Communications Corporation (AMEX:HCT...Voice's MobileVoice(TM) service to Hector Communications residential and business subscribers. The MobileVoice service Hector Communications will launch to all of its...
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Harold Hector, 60, actor, leader in Vietnam draft resistance
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/8/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...movement in Boston in 1967, Harold R. Hector Jr. of Roxbury endured counter- protesters...End church. News photos captured Mr. Hector, a former captain of the Roxbury Memorial...believed in what he was doing." Mr. Hector, an award-winning actor in San Francisco...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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house Hector's.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/9/2004; 700+ words
; Byline: ALICE BB Hector Christie could have had Glyndebourne...cameras Photographs on my way to meet Hector Christie, the man who was set to inherit...in North Devon, as a hippie commune. Hector has been a constant feature in the press...
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Hector
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Hector In Greek mythology, Hector was the son of King Priam of Troy and his wife, Hecuba. A Trojan...the Trojan War*. In the Iliad, Homer's epic about the war, Hector is portrayed as a noble and honorable leader. He was a good son...
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Camacho, Hector: 1962—: Boxer
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
Hector Camacho: 1962—: Boxer Starting...streets of New York's Spanish Harlem, Hector "Macho" Camacho became one of boxing...1991 (divorced, 2001); children: Hector, Jr. (from previous relationship...
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Louis Hector Berlioz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Louis Hector Berlioz Louis Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was a French composer, conductor, and...romanticism and influenced orchestral techniques for more than a century. Hector Berlioz is the epitome of the romantic artist, together with the...
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Boece, Hector
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Boece, Hector (or Hector Boëthius ), (?1465–1536), published a Latin history of Scotland to the accession of James III (1526), which included many fabulous narratives, among others that of Macbeth and Duncan, which...
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Hyppolite, Hector
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Hyppolite, Hector (or Hector Hippolite ) ( b Saint-Marc, 15 Sept. 1894; d Port-au-Prince, 9 June 1948). Haitian painter. He is the most famous of his country's remarkable crop of naive painters, but he did not achieve recognition...
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