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Sweet
Sweet Rock group For the Record… Selected discography Sources British pop rockers Sweet began their career by releasing records that were typical early 1970s bubblegum fare, but they soon became part of the glam-rock scene then taking hold in Britain and North America. Wresting... Read more |
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Dolores
Dolores ♀ Spanish: from Maria de los Dolores ‘Mary of the Sorrows’, a reference to the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. The feast of Our Lady's Dolours was established in 1423. The name is now also borne in the English-speaking world, mainly by Roman Catholics. In part, it was... Read more |
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Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet 1845-1912, English philologist and phonetician. An authority on Anglo-Saxon and the history of the English language, Sweet was also a pioneer in modern scientific phonetics. His History of English Sounds (1874) was a landmark in that study. In 1901 he was made a reader in phonetics at... Read more |
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closed shop and open shop
closed shop and open shop The term "closed shop" is used to signify an establishment employing only members of a labor union. The union shop, a closely allied term, indicates a company where employees do not have to belong to a labor union when hired but are required to join within a specified... Read more |
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Rose Pesotta
Rose Pesotta Rose Pesotta (1896-1965) was one of only a few women labor activists who fought diligently to improve the standards of American sweat shops, especially for women, by organizing unions. The Great Depression had a tremendous impact on workers in the United States. While all... Read more |
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plaza
plaza. 1. Public square or market place, especially in Spain or Latin America. 2. Large paved area surrounded by or adjacent to buildings, often embellished with sculpture, fountains, and planting, especially in North America. 3. Suburban shopping area consisting of a huge parking lot surrounded by... Read more |
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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush , 1890-1974, American electrical engineer and physicist, b. Everett, Mass., grad. Tufts College (B.S., 1913). He went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919; there he was professor (1923-32) and vice president and dean of engineering (1932-38). During this period he... Read more |
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Shamanism
S HAMANISM A shaman is one who serves his people by acting as an intermediary to the spirit world. The claimed ability to communicate with the world beyond death is at least as old as the time when early humans first conceived the idea that some part of... Read more |
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Play
Play Definition Play is the work of children. It consists of those activities performed for self-amusement that have behavioral, social, and psychomotor rewards. It is child-directed, and the rewards come from within the individual child; it is enjoyable and... Read more |
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