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Dutch elm disease
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elm
elm common name for the Ulmaceae, a family of trees and shrubs chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. Elm trees (genus Ulmus ) have a limited use as hardwoods for timber, especially the rock or cork elm ( U. thomasi ). Tall and graceful, with fan-shaped crowns of finely subdividing branches and... Read more |
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The Dexter Corp
The Dexter Corporation One Elm StreetWindsor Locks, Connecticut 06096 |
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Trinity (river)
Trinity river rising in N Texas in three forks; the Clear Fork runs into the West Fork at Fort Worth, and the Elm Fork joins the West Fork at Dallas. The Trinity then flows c.510 mi (820 km) SE to Trinity Bay, an arm of Galveston Bay. The waters of upper tributaries and the main stream are... Read more |
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Shanhaiguan
Shanhaiguan, Hebei/China A strategic ‘Pass between Mountains and Sea’ from shān, hăi, and guān'ài ‘pass’ constructed in 1381. It has also been called Yú ‘Elm’.... Read more |
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Chicopee
Chicopee , city (1990 pop. 56,632), Hampden co., SW Mass., at the confluence of the Chicopee and the Connecticut rivers; settled c.1641, set off from Springfield 1848, inc. as a city 1890. It includes the villages of Willimansett, Fairview, Aldenville, Chicopee Center, and Chicopee Falls. Plastics,... Read more |
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deadeye
deadeye, orig. dead-man's-eye, a circular block, usually of lignum vitae, though sometimes of elm, grooved around the circumference and pierced with three holes. In the days of the square-rigger they were used in pairs to secure the end of a shroud to the chain-plate. A lanyard was threaded through... Read more |
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Nightmares
Nightmares Definition Nightmares are a type of sleepdisruption, or parasomnia, characterized by frightening psychological content. Nightmares provoke a feeling of imminent physical danger with a sensation of being trapped or suffocated. These frightening dreams occur... Read more |
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Sally
Sally (1920), a musical comedy by Guy Bolton (book), Jerome Kern (music), Clifford Grey and others (lyrics). [New Amsterdam Theatre, 570 perf.] Sally Rhinelander ( Marilyn Miller), an orphan and a dishwasher at the Elm Tree Alley Inn, is befriended by her co‐worker “Connie”... Read more |
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Richard Penn Smith
Smith, Richard Penn (1799–1854),Philadelphia playwright, grandson of provost William Smith, was significant for introducing romantic tragedy in the U.S. and using foreign sources. Of his plays on American historical themes, William Penn; or, The Elm Tree (1829) and The Triumph at Plattsburg... Read more |
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