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Lubbock

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Lubbock city (1990 pop. 186,206), seat of Lubbock co., NW Tex.; inc. 1909. In the Llano Estacado region on a branch of the Brazos River, it was settled in 1879 by Quakers. It is the trade center for the cotton- and grain-growing Great Plains region of Texas and E New Mexico. Its manufactures include cottonseed oil, earth-moving and irrigation equipment, and pumps. Food and dairy products are produced, and there are wineries. A prairie-dog town is preserved in Mackenzie State Park. Lubbock Lake Landmark State Historical Park is an archaeological and natural history preserve. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock Christian College, and the Texas Air Museum are in the city.

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Lubbock, Percy

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Lubbock, Percy (1879–1965), critic and biographer, whose works include Earlham (1922), an account of his own Norfolk childhood holidays; Roman Pictures (1923), which describes an English tourist's responses to Rome; Shades of Eton (1923), recollections of his schooldays; and Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947). He edited a selection of H. James's letters (1920); also a selection from A. C. Benson's diary (1926). His The Craft of Fiction (1921) analyses the techniques of Tolstoy, Flaubert, James, etc.

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Lubbock

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Lubbock, Texas/USA Founded in 1890 and named after Colonel Thomas S. Lubbock, a Confederate officer and one of those who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence to create the new Republic of Texas in 1836.

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Lubbock

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Lubbock •elegiac • Newark • Lubbock •Caradoc, haddock, paddock, shaddock •Marduk • piddock • Norfolk • Suffolk •charlock •hillock, pillock •lilac •ballock, pollack, pollock, rowlock •bullock • hammock •hummock, slummock, stomach •bannock, Zanuck •Kilmarnock • Greenock • monarch •eunuch •arrack, barrack, Baruch, carrack •cassock, hassock •tussock • Taoiseach • mattock •buttock, futtock •havoc • bulwark • wazzock • Isaac

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	Lubbock: education, agribusiness, and services. (Lubbock, Texas) Newspaper article from: Texas Business Review; 8/1/1989
	Mark Patton. Science, politics and business in the work of Sir John Lubbock:... Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2008
	Bobby in Lubbock is no joke.(Sports) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 3/25/2001