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vegetables, although breast milk and organ meats
contain small amounts. Citrus fruits, tomatoes, pep
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pers, strawberries, and cantaloupe are all excellent
sources. —American Medical Association
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MARKS AND BRANDS
25 . n. A mark of shame for drunkards in Colonial
America.
Drunkards were forced to wear a great shame-
letter D, “made of red cloth and set upon white, and
to conti...
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of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female
chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of
the alphabet, and an arbitrary point in time. X is a kiss
at the ... herring, and oysters), lean meats,
poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The
only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two
Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Am...
... urinary tracts and maintains
healthy skin and hair. Beta carotene (also known
as pro vitamin A) is converted to vitamin A by the
body. Unlike retinol, beta carotene is an antioxi-
dant a substance ... are yeast, alfalfa, and two
Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Ameri
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can Medical Association
29 . n.
A blood type.
Genes for types A and B are dominant, and will
always be ex...
... —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks
of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to
Understanding Your Name
Like his father, and Grandfather Darwin as well,
he tended to stammer, having special diffi culties ... fret. —Vaccaro Guitars
31. n.
V aerial: an antenna shaped like a V.
[The pink stretch limo had] gold- tint mirror glass,
and a flying- V aerial on the back. Very cyberpunk.
—Ian McDo...
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Calishain, Alison Callahan, Jonathan and Hilary Caws-
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affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par
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ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O.
30. n. (mathematics)
The natural number e, used as
the base for natural logarithms ...
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26 . n.
A Roman numeral for 25 0.
27 . n. Something arbitrarily designated E (e.g., a per-
son, place, or other thing).
28 . n.
A shoe width size (nar...
... posterior (dorsal) horns are gray matter areas
at the rear of each side of the H. . . . The lateral horns
are small projections of gray matter at the sides of
H. —Phillip E. Pack, Anatomy and Physiology ... (cooked);
smaller amounts are found in whole- wheat prod
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ucts, dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri-
can Medical Association
And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because we’ll...
...
lost jack a piece of card- sized paper on which they
were going to draw a face both ways up, a club, a
capital J, and even the jack’s name.”
—Georges
Perec, Life: A User’s Manual
2. (in ... universal negative E, the par
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ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O.
37. n.
A unit vector parallel to the x- axis.
38. n. Candlepower.
The term candlepower is based...
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22 . n. In baseball, a strikeout.
23 . n. A mountain, as in K 2 (the second highest moun-
tain on earth, located in the Karakoram range in
Pakistan).
SHAPES AND DESIGNS
24 . n. Something having ...
which only zeros appear above the diagonal.
L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A
Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory”
20 . n. (mechanic...
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wondered desperately if K came before or after
N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty
since kindergarten, had suddenly deserted ... Q and M, the Coca- Cola Company]
churned out a bewildering set of statements and
commercials aimed at disparaging Pepsi’s results,
starting with the claim that people had a psycho...