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spinal column
spinal column bony column forming the main structural support of the skeleton of humans and other vertebrates, also known as the vertebral column or backbone. It consists of segments known as vertebrae linked by intervertebral disks and held together by ligaments. In human beings, the spinal... Read more |
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backbone
backbone (spinal column, spine, vertebral column) (bak-bohn) n. the flexible bony column, extending from the base of the skull to the small of the back, that encloses and protects the spinal cord. It is made up of individual bones (see vertebra) connected by discs of fibrocartilage (see... Read more |
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Isandhlwana
Isandhlwana. Hill, located 75 miles north of Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), site of an important battle in the Zulu War. Part of the centre column of a three-pronged British invasion of Zululand, having underestimated its opponents, was surprised by a Zulu army on 22 January 1879. Disciplined... Read more |
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bookkeeping
bookkeeping maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. Proper bookkeeping should also reveal... Read more |
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Heywood Campbell Broun
Heywood Campbell Broun , 1888-1939, American newspaper columnist and critic, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He worked on the New York Tribune (1912-21) and the New York World (1921-28), where his syndicated column, "It Seems to Me," began. In 1928 he transferred it to the Scripps-Howard newspapers,... Read more |
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vertebral column
vertebral column (backbone; spinal column; spine) A flexible bony column in vertebrates that extends down the long axis of the body and provides the main skeletal support. It also encloses and protects the spinal cord and provides attachment for the muscles of the back. The vertebral column consists... Read more |
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manometer
manometer A device for measuring pressure differences, usually by the difference in height of two liquid columns. The simplest type is the U-tube manometer, which consists of a glass tube bent into the shape of a U. If a pressure to be measured is fed to one side of the U-tube and the other is open... Read more |
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entasis
entasis [Gr.,=stretching], the slight convex curvature of a classical column that diminishes in diameter as it rises. This device, as used by Greek builders, was of extreme subtlety, the freehand curvature being merely sufficient to guard the contours of the column from any appearance of inward... Read more |
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column
column vertical architectural support, circular or polygonal in plan. A column is generally at least four or five times as high as its diameter or width; stubbier freestanding masses of masonry are usually called piers or pillars, particularly those with a rectangular plan. In fully developed... Read more |
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If Carlsberg did fairytales, we'd be playing Poland, Russia and...
...Ireland would be a group with Poland, Russia and Greece. Host nations...getting the better of Greece or Poland. Ireland wouldn't get out...friendly match, as it will give the team a better sense of where...nine years since then. Leading up to the it, Ipswich ... |
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AUTHOR WILL DISCUSS HER ROOTS IN POLAND.(COMMUNITIES)(HERE AND THERE)(Column)
...the March 30 Milwaukee Bucks home game. To participate, pick up a scorecard at the Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road...Dane County Association for Home and Community Education will give three $500 scholarships this spring to students pursuing a post... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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PROFESSOR HONORED BY PEERS; KRAKOW, POLAND, NATIVE CAME TO CAZENOVIA IN...
...originally from? Krakow, Poland How long have you lived...University in Krakow, Poland. I have a master's...but more of a way to give students tools that they...not be afraid to speak up. Usually the beginning...am totally educated in ... |
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Poland's builders are nervous. (World Review/Europe) (Column)
...November elections in Poland may well shape the...would all be swallowed up as satellites of German...foreign banks won't give it without assurances...produces ballscrews up to 5m long. The USSR...someone has to come up with the answer ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Travel: Simon Calder Column The Thomas Cook timetable suggests it is easier...
...the company couldn't give any information on services...too, were unable to give me details of routes outside...Szczecin, in western Poland, to Norwich than it is...that if I were to turn up at 6.15pm he would be...would be delighted to give ... |
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Soviets aren't opening Iron Curtain for Poland
...assurances of support for Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia...far, the impact in Poland may be more painful...cooperate and might set up "informal" links...demand calls for Poland to deed to Moscow...proposed treaty would give Moscow power ... |
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Polonia and Poland: Where Do We Go From Here?
...Some time ago in this column, I discussed the biases...feel that things is Poland would be so much better...they would solve all of Poland's problems. This...politics. Polonia should give nonpartisan support to Poland, provided its ... |
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Here comes carve-up - and we'll be the turkeys.(Column)
...local council carve-up. The problem is that...will be introduced to give the big nations the best...chance of a Latvia or Poland, where Berti Vogts would...v Holland and Latvia v Poland coming out of a random...same people who carved up Euro ... |
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UKRAINE SHAKE-UP.(GEOPOLITICS)(EMBASSY ROW)(Column)
...WASHINGTON TIMES UKRAINE SHAKE-UP Ukraine's pro-Russia president...Wednesday as part of a shake-up of the diplomatic corps to reverse...Afghanistan, Austria, Israel, Poland and Portugal. Since his inauguration...by signing an agreement that gives Russia's ... |
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WHISKEY STOPS ME SEIZING UP.(Column)
...to distraction. Yet it gives you a sense of self...leg would suddenly seize up or my arms would become...whiskey and it cleared up. Then, singing in Hong...the doctor. Yet I grew up to have all the childish...first day, she decided to give ... |
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