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Deal
Deal town (1991 pop. 26,311), Kent, SE England, on the Downs, an important passage for Channel shipping. It is a popular holiday resort. There is some boat building. Other industries include brush making, the production of plastics, and precision engineering. Deal is the reputed landing place of... Read more |
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Square Deal
SQUARE DEAL SQUARE DEAL, the phrase coined by Theodore Roosevelt during his first term as president to highlight his position on the "labor problem." Its first public utterance appears to have been in the peroration of a Labor Day address given at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on 7... Read more |
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Oxford Parliament
Oxford Parliament, 1681. The Oxford Parliament was the denouement of the great Exclusion crisis and established Charles II's supremacy for the last four years of his reign. The Shaftesbury Whigs who opposed him had won three general elections between 1679 and 1681. In April 1681 Charles summoned a... Read more |
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ballistics
ballistics , science of projectiles. Interior ballistics deals with the propulsion and the motion of a projectile within a gun or firing device. Its problems include the ignition and burning of the propellant powder, the pressure produced by the expanding gases, the movement of the projectile... Read more |
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rheology
rheology , branch of physics dealing with the deformation and flow of matter. It is particularly concerned with the properties of matter that determine its behavior when a mechanical force is exerted on it. Rheology is distinguished from fluid dynamics (see fluid mechanics ) in that it is... Read more |
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Small business
Small Business Most people get their definition of "small business" from personal experience in dealing with small retail stores and service organizations. Most people also have a minimum size in mind and overlook a whole category of small business, the very small operations Europeans call... Read more |
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Fair Deal 1945-1953
FAIR DEAL FAIR DEAL was the phrase adopted by President Harry S. Truman to characterize the program of domestic legislation his administration sought to pass through Congress. In September 1945 Truman sent to Congress a twenty-one point program, based in part on the Democratic platform... Read more |
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Daniel Dunglas Home
Daniel Dunglas Home , 1833-86, Scottish-American spiritualist medium, b. Edinburgh, Scotland. He was taken to the United States when a small child. At age 13 he claimed to have discovered his gifts for dealing with spirits, and from 1850 to his death he had a triumphant career as a medium, always... Read more |
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The Group
Group, The, satirical play by Mercy Otis Warren, published in 1775, the day before the Battle of Lexington. It deals with the king's abrogation of the Massachusetts charter and his appointment of a Tory upper house.Lord Chief Justice Hazelrod (Peter Oliver), Judge Meagre (Foster Hutchinson, brother... Read more |
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