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  • 41salt mine — noun 1. a mine where salt is dug • Hypernyms: ↑mine 2. a job involving drudgery and confinement • Syn: ↑treadmill • Hypernyms: ↑occupation, ↑business, ↑job, ↑ …

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  • 42sweat — I. verb (sweat or sweated; sweating) Etymology: Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from swāt sweat; akin to Old High German sweiz sweat, Latin sudare to sweat, Greek hidrōs sweat Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1 …

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  • 43Matthew Arnold — This article is about the poet. For other uses, see Matthew Arnold (disambiguation). Matthew Arnold Born December 24, 1822 (1822 12 24 …

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  • 44Jonathan Z. Smith — Jonathan Zittell Smith (J. Z. Smith) is a historian of religions. He has researched the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. His works include Map is Not Territory,… …

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  • 45Ursula Franklin — Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., FRSC, (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany), is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and university educator. [Lumley, Elizabeth (editor). (2008) Canadian Who s Who… …

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  • 46History of the Jews in Tunisia — Tunisia has had a Jewish minority since Roman times. In 1948 the Jewish population was an estimated 105,000, but by 1967 most Tunisian Jews had left the country for France and Israel, and the population had shrunk to 20,000. As of 2004 an… …

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  • 47Rhonda Roland Shearer — is a sculptor, scholar, and journalist, who founded the nonprofit organization Art Science Research Laboratory with her late husband Stephen Jay Gould. The mission statement avows that the lab aims to infuse intellectual rigor and critical… …

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  • 48Manual labour — Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896). Manual labour (British English), manual labor (American English) or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and also to that done by… …

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  • 49fag — fag1 /fag/, v., fagged, fagging, n. v.t. 1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out. 2. Brit. to require (a younger public school pupil) to do menial chores. 3. Naut. to fray or unlay the end of (a… …

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  • 50Johnson, Eyvind — born July 29, 1900, Svartbjörnsbyn, near Boden, Swed. died Aug. 25, 1976, Stockholm Swedish novelist. He endured a grim boyhood of hard labour. His early novels evince feelings of frustration; Bobinack (1932) is an exposé of the machinations of… …

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