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Sewanee

(Encyclopedia)Sewanee: see South, University of the. ...

Gould, Jay

(Encyclopedia)Gould, Jay, 1836–92, American speculator, b. Delaware co., N.Y. A country-store clerk and surveyor's assistant, he rose to control half the railroad mileage in the Southwest, New York City's elevate...

tennessine

(Encyclopedia)tennessine tĕnˈəsēn [key], artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Ts; at. no. 117; mass number of most stable isotope 294; m.p., b.p., sp. gr., and valence unknown. Tennessine ...

Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin)

(Encyclopedia)Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), 1838–1927, and Tennessee Claflin, 1846–1923, American journalists and lecturers, b. Ohio, sisters noted for their beauty and wildly eccentric behavior. As children th...

Yunus, Muhammad

(Encyclopedia)Yunus, Muhammad, 1940–, Bangladeshi economist and banker, b. Chittagong (then in British India), grad. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, Tenn. (Ph.D. 1971). Yunus, who taught economics in the United Stat...

City College

(Encyclopedia)City College: see New York, City University of. ...

Hunter College

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Lehman College

(Encyclopedia)Lehman College: see New York, City University of. ...

York College

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Brooklyn College

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