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  • 71Jean Augustin Ernouf — Jean Auguste Ernouf Manuel Louis Jean Auguste Ernouf Born 29 August 1753 (1753 08 29) …

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  • 72National Nothing Day — is an un event proposed in 1972 by columnist Harold Pullman Coffin and observed annually on January 16 since 1973, when it was added to Chase s Calendar of Events. [1] [2] [3] Its purpose is: to provide Americans with one National day when they… …

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  • 73bow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. obeisance, curtsy, kowtow, salaam; front, prow. v. i. nod, incline, bend; yield, concede; [make one s] debut. See courtesy, respect, submission, beginning. II n. curve, arc, crescent; bow knot;… …

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  • 74fall — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. plunge, drop, sink, tumble, topple; perish; be deposed, come to grief; happen, occur, take place; sin, misbehave, lapse. n. slope, declivity; downfall, defeat, comedown; drop, slump; plunge, tumble …

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  • 75succumb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. give in, yield, submit, surrender, assent; die, expire, give up the ghost. See weakness, submission, failure, death. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To yield] Syn. submit, surrender, accede; see yield 1 . 2.… …

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  • 76chapter — [13] Ultimately, chapter is the same word as capital. Both came via Old French from Latin capitulum ‘small head’, a diminutive form of caput ‘head’, but whereas capital represents a late, 12th century borrowing into French in ecclesiastical and… …

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  • 77chapter — [13] Ultimately, chapter is the same word as capital. Both came via Old French from Latin capitulum ‘small head’, a diminutive form of caput ‘head’, but whereas capital represents a late, 12th century borrowing into French in ecclesiastical and… …

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  • 78yield — [yēld] vt. [ME yelden < OE gieldan, to pay, give, akin to Ger gelten, to be worth < IE base * ghel tō, (I) give, pay] 1. to produce; specif., a) to give or furnish as a natural process or as the result of cultivation [an orchard that… …

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  • 79capitulant — kəˈpichələnt noun ( s) Etymology: French, present participle of capituler to capitulate, from Medieval Latin capitulare to distinguish by heads or chapters more at capitulate : one that capitulates …

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  • 80Recapitulate — Re*ca*pit u*late (r[=e] k[.a]*p[i^]t [ u]*l[=a]t), v. t. [L. recapitulare, recapitulatum; pref. re re + capitulum a small head, chapter, section. See {Capitulate}.] To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a… …

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