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engaged
engaged. Applied, attached, semi-engaged, inserted, or seemingly partly buried in a wall or pier, such as a column with half or more of its shaft visible, quite distinct from a pilaster. A fluted engaged column with more or less than half its shaft exposed creates difficulties at the junction with... Read more |
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Joseph Alsop
Joseph Alsop , 1910-89, and Alsop, Stewart, 1914-74, American political journalists, b. Avon, Conn. Joseph joined (1932) the New York Herald Tribune as a staff reporter and moved (1936) to its Washington, D.C., bureau. His Washington political column, written (1937-40) with Robert E. Kintner... Read more |
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fifth
fifth fifth column a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies. The term dates from the Spanish Civil War, when General Mola, leading four columns of nationalist troops towards Madrid in 1936, declared that he had a fifth column inside the city.fifth force a... Read more |
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orders of architecture
orders of architecture In classical tyles of architecture the various columnar types fall, in general, into the five so-called classical orders, which are named Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite. Each order comprises the column with its base, shaft, and capital and the supported... Read more |
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caryatid
caryatid , a sculptured female figure serving as an ornamental support in place of a column or pilaster. It was a frequently used motif in architecture, furniture, and garden sculpture during the Renaissance, the 18th cent., and notably, the classic revival of the 19th cent., when caryatids were... 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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Spina Bifida
Spina bifida Definition Spina bifida belongs to a group of disorders known as neural tube defects (NTDs). These all involve problems in the development and closure of the neural tube, a structure in the human fetus that begins forming very early in a pregnancy. The neural tube eventually becomes... Read more |
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Walter Winchell
WINCHELL, WALTER 1897-1972 C OLUMNIST Gossip The claim that Walter Winchell created the modern gossip column has been disputed, but he was indisputably the most widely known and widely read columnist in American journalism. By various estimates the readers of his... Read more |
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Impossible to control real experience of God. (Starting Point) (Column)
...you, if these were silent, the very stones...Who knows what lifestyles they practiced...genuine experience of God. That doesn't...right to worship God. Neither Sullivan...express our desire for God, whether in the...Christ path. It ... |
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QUIET, EVEN ILLNESS, HELPS US TRULY SEE LIFE'S...
...comment on a recent column about a physician...severe adversity. "God must think I'm very...loud, Thank you, God, for chickadees...what he calls a "silent stay-at-home...serenity of spirit seems rare today. I suspect...where I come from. It ... |
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God save our future king from such pain.(Column)
...how 'ordinary', how in control he seems, we know his life has already been tinged...Must he resign himself to a playboy lifestyle or find himself a cause? Will he go around...The Firm expects its members to remain silent. It punishes anyone who breaks this contract... |
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An honest face at No 10 . . . and Tony loved being in the snap, too.(Column)
...of me. There is a silent but significant number...and, with what seems to be a tilt at the...The 27-year-old seems to have a decency...overpaid and spoiled tin god. I am sure he is...it an extravagant lifestyle, ensuring that ... |
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ICLU BADGERING DOESN'T PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS EQUALLY ABSENCE OF...
...1993, a2 An opinion column in the Insight section...meaning. The original column said, ''Religion...methodology, homosexual lifestyles and omit the importance...civil rights? It seems they are insuring...actually doing to the silent majority ... |
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COLUMN: Democrats have lost touch with America
...the American public. There seems to be a consensus emerging on...voters, evangelicals and the silent majority of Americans. What...traditional Americans who hold God, nationalism and traditional...their own reckless decisions and lifestyles, and also because ... |
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...fails, when the silent majority or Christian...Eaton's May 17 column suggests it is...on his or her lifestyle, to have equal rights under God or the law. The...a calling from God, to discriminate...your so-called ... |
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Two area programs spotlight Christmases past
...of year always seems to accentuate...line singing "Silent Night," one...event. Operation Silent Night is more...generation. Celebrate God Jul and Joyeux...encampment, where the lifestyle of natives in...Tribune. Her columns ... |
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Readers' letters
...article on Columbus and the silent testimony of the giant...wood. Pini Jason's column, "Is Nigeria the most...the very fine image of God, and he loves us. Keep...is being wasted. It seems that while common sense...want to live a Western ... |
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