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  • 1United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 2Lawrence Sullivan Ross — Infobox Governor name = Lawrence Sullivan Ross order = 19th office = Governor of Texas term start = 1887 term end = 1891 lieutenant = Thomas Benton Wheeler predecessor = John Ireland successor = Jim Hogg birth date = September 27, 1838 birth… …

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  • 3Ludwig von Mises — Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises Austrian School Born 29 September 1881(1881 09 29) Lemberg …

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  • 4True-blue — a. Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See {True blue}, under {Blue}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5incorruptibility — n. 1. Imperishableness, incorruptibleness, incorruption, indestructibility, immortality, deathlessness, perpetuity of being. 2. Superiority to corruption, unpurchasableness, inflexible honesty, incorruptible integrity …

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  • 6incorruptible — a. 1. Imperishable, incapable of decay, indestructible, immortal, undying, deathless, everlasting. 2. Of inflexible honesty, not to be bribed …

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  • 7Lincoln, Abraham — born Feb. 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky., U.S. died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C. 16th president of the U.S. (1861–65). Born in a Kentucky log cabin, he moved to Indiana in 1816 and to Illinois in 1830. After working as a storekeeper, a rail… …

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  • 8brassbound — adjective 1. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable brassbound traditions brassbound party loyalists an ironclad rule • Syn: ↑ironclad • Similar to: ↑inflexible 2. having trim or fittings of brass …

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  • 9Strain theory (sociology) — In criminology, the strain theory states that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. Following on the work of Émile Durkheim, Strain Theories have been advanced by Merton (1938), Cohen (1955), Cloward and Ohlin… …

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  • 10France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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