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landing
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land bridge
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Promised Land
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Pure Land
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Bering Land Bridge
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native land claims
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Freehold
freehold An estate in land that is now usually held in fee simple. Land that is not freehold will be leasehold land.... Read more |
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easement
easement in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g., a public utility's right to run power... Read more |
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Land of Nod
Land of Nod [Heb.,=wandering], in the Bible, the traditional refuge of Cain somewhere E of Eden.... Read more |
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land mine
land mine an explosive mine laid on or just under the surface of the ground.... Read more |
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funeral practices: cultural variation
...desecration of graves, eating your enemies, or chopping up...people, either had no part in your society or belonged to another...and return of the corpse to land is not feasible. With motorized...Britons, and others who die on land but who have sentimental ... |
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PHRASE WORD
...America’ syndrome; the having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too category...Preposition midway: a back to the land movement; the signal-to-noise ratio...Negation-based. A no-man's-land; a no-win situation; a won't... |
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Guthrie, ‘Woody’
...captured the spirit of the Great Depression and championed workers' rights. His most famous tunes include “This Land Is Your Land” and “So Long, It's Been Good to Know You”. |
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Guthrie, Woody (Woodrow Wilson)
...Good to Know Ya, Hard Travelin), even religion (This Train Is Bound for Glory), and his best‐known, This Land Is Your Land, which has from time to time been proposed as a new national anthem. Guthrie was paralyzed and speechless from the... |
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Barbara Frietchie
...Shubert production, after a record‐breaking forty‐week tryout in Philadelphia, played at the Jolson Theatre for 312 performances. Notable songs: Silver Moon; Won't You Marry Me?; Your Land and My Land. |
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Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (1946), a musical comedy by Herbert and Dorothy Fields (book...uneducated but happy country girl who is an infallible shot, an asset that lands her in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She falls in love with a rival... |
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Dream Girl
...day, a word here, a gesture there, send her into fantasy land. Her life changes only when she meets a young man, Clark Redfield...marry, “as long,” Clark insists, “as you run your dreams, instead of letting them run you.” She promises... |
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
...more guileful and abusing, for what else is your Metaphore but an inuersion of sence by transport; your allegorie but a duplicitie of meaning or dissimulation...fields in which scholars work lie the patches of land where farmers have ‘literally’ worked... |
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Robards, Jason, Jr.
...Robards's later performances of note included the grumpy teacher Jacob Brackish in Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1991), the mysterious Hirst in No Man's Land (1994), and the wasted eye surgeon Mr. Rice in Molly Sweeney (1996), his last New... |
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weathering
weathering The skin on your face and the paint on your car can suffer from the weather, a process so obvious that...which are abundant in nutrients and provide rich agricultural land. Limestone consists of calcium carbonate in the form of calcite... |
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Tan-luan
...542). Early Chinese Pure Land thinker and popularizer. He began...book. Taoism may prolong your life for a while, but by means...for the development of Pure Land Buddhism is: (1) the single...an-luan set about Pure Land practices; (2) his reliance... |
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American Indians
...received fractions of the lands they had held collectively...with the rest of the lands allocated to companies...of their remaining land, a total of 17 million...as Custer Died for your Sins (1969) by Vine...Compensation for land claims were ... |
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ground
...of the earth's surface; land: an adjoining area of ground had been purchased. ∎ land of a specified kind: my feet...marshy ground. ∎ an area of land or sea used for a specified...you will be able to hold your ground and resist the enemy... |
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rise
...be restored to life: your sister has risen from the dead...to the challenge. 3. (of land or a feature following the contours of the land) incline upward; become higher: the moorlands...size, amount, or quality: land prices had risen. ∎ (of... |
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park
...around the park. ∎ a large area of land kept in its natural state for public...wildlife park) a large enclosed area of land used to accommodate wild animals in...until required: come on in, and park your bag by the door. ∎ (park oneself... |
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pasture
pas·ture / ˈpaschər/ • n. land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing...esp. cattle or sheep. ∎ the grass and herbage growing on such land: do not let your pasture grow too fast so that the plants become rank. ∎ fig... |
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ridge
...running along or across a surface: buff your nails in order to smooth ridges. ∎ a raised strip of arable land, esp. (in medieval open fields...the earth ridged. ∎ form (arable land) into raised strips separated by furrows... |
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use
...tr.] treat (someone) in a particular way: use your troops well and they will not let you down. ∎ apply...use of crying? ∎ hist. Law the benefit or profit of lands, esp. lands that are in the possession of another who holds them... |
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lordship
...lord. ∎ hist. a piece of land or territory belonging to or...the jurisdiction of a lord: lands including the lordship of Denbigh. 2. (His/Your, etc., Lordship) in the...or a man with a title: if Your Lordship pleases. |
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tame
...tame you have to push them away from your face mask. ∎ not exciting, adventurous...produced by cultivation. ∎ (of land) cultivated. • v. [tr.] (often be...to tame inflation. ∎ cultivate (land or wilderness). DERIVATIVES: tam·a·ble... |
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get
...gather, collect, pick up, hook, net, land; achieve, attain; informal get one...score.antonym: give. 2. I got your letter synonyms: receive, be sent...of, be given.antonym: send. 3. your tea's getting cold synonyms: become... |
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foist
foist • verb why are you trying to foist your crummy old furniture on me?synonyms: impose on, force on, thrust on, offload on, unload on, dump on, palm off on; pass off on; saddle someone with, land someone with. |
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spare
...fallback, substitute; fresh. 2. they sold off the spare land synonyms: surplus, superfluous, excessive, extra; redundant...disposable, expendable, unwanted; informal going begging. 3. your spare time synonyms: free, leisure, own. 4. a man of... |
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pick
...prompt, bring about. • noun 1. take your pick synonyms: choice, selection, option...on why don't you pick on somebody your own size?synonyms: bully, victimize...hands on, get one's mitts on, bag, land. 6. she picked up a virus synonyms... |
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settle
...be still; informal shut up. 10. a brandy will settle your nerves synonyms: calm, quiet; Brit. quieten, soothe...oneself. 12. a butterfly settled on the flower synonyms: land, come to rest, alight, descend, perch; archaic light... |
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take
...secure, come by, win, earn, pick up, carry off; informal land, bag, net, scoop. 20. I took the chance to postpone...deduce, guess, conjecture, fancy, suspect. 25. I take your point synonyms: understand, grasp, get, comprehend... |
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trespass
...without permission, invade. 2. I must not trespass on your good nature synonyms: take advantage of, impose on, play...and narrow. • noun 1. his alleged trespass on private land synonyms: unlawful entry, intrusion, encroachment, invasion... |
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doubtful
...or doomed to fail (it was doubtful that the plane could land safely). Dubious is not quite as strong, suggesting suspicion...other hand, it means that you're wavering or hesitating in your opinion. Questionable may merely imply the existence of... |
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state
...informal flap, tizzy, dither, stew, sweat. 3. informal your room is in a state synonyms: mess, chaos, disorder, disarray...imbroglio. 4. an autonomous state synonyms: country, nation, land, sovereign state, nation state, kingdom, realm, power... |
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Lands' End to Give Back $1 Million to Schools in 2010.
...Million Dollar Difference - Get Your Share. Dodgeville, WI...Administrators(1). Since 1998, Lands' End has helped schools...Schools agree to work with Lands' End as a school clothing provider and make Lands' End School catalogs available... |
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Land Tax 2011 - Why your land tax liability may increase and how to object to...
...is liable to pay the land tax, not another party...records that establish your entitlement to a land...the assessment of the land value, you may need...unimproved value of the land for the two years prior...maximise the chance of ... |
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Land-grant movement: After decades of inaction, fight is gaining traction.
...building to transfer federal lands in New Mexico to the heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants. Descendants of...riles many who aren't land-grant heirs, Gov...urging Congress to transfer lands from the U.S. Forest...and U.S. Bureau of Land ... |
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LAND RECORDS BOOK KEY TO TRACING U.S. ROOTS.(Lifestyle)
...the state-land and federal-land states and their peculiarities, to ``individual lands'' (lands in all land transactions following the initial...a ``must-have'' book for your personal library. You will refer... |
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LAND-GRANT MOVEMENT.(Main)
...building to transfer federal lands in New Mexico to the heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants. Descendants of...riles many who aren't land-grant heirs, Gov...urging Congress to transfer lands from the U.S. Forest...and U.S. Bureau of Land ... |
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Land tax: The hard facts
...in that particular state. Land values are not accumulated Australia wide to calculate the land tax liability. For many...an objection against the land tax valuation which forms...the inability to park near your home can adversely impact... |
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LAND EXCHANGE IN OREGON:KING WILLIAMS
...R. 2950 The Oregon Land Exchange Act of 1999 October...consultant for Clearwater Land Exchange of Oregon Chairman...National Parks and Public Lands, I want to thank you...here before you urging your support for H.R. 2950, the Oregon Land ... |
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LANDS BILLS:MR. SCOTT KLUNDT
...thank you for your interest in my...farmers utilize lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM...these federal land dominant areas...rely on federal lands in order to sustain...their private land as well as how ... |
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Lands' End Sets New, Trendier Course in Apparel Sales.
...khaki can you have in your closet?" he said with...got it figured out. "Lands' End has a ton of problems...shareholders." To be sure, Lands' End had veered off in...inventory, trying to improve Land's End's already enviable...season. Dyer thought ... |
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Land Rover South Bay Master Technician Wins 2001 'Technicians' Challenge'...
...Highlands Ranch, Colo.- based Land Rover Denver South (220...paid vacation provided by Land Rover University. Previous...some off-road driving in Land Rovers. Land Rover University...Dearborn, Mich. MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here... |
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