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  • 51at one's wit's end — or[at wits end] {adj. phr.} Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. * /He had approached every friend and… …

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  • 52at one's wit's end — or[at wits end] {adj. phr.} Having no ideas as to how to meet a difficulty or solve a problem; feeling puzzled after having used up all of your ideas or resources; not knowing what to do; puzzled. * /He had approached every friend and… …

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  • 53Embarrass — Em*bar rass ([e^]m*b[a^]r ras), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embarrassed} ([e^]m*b[a^]r rast); p. pr. & vb. n. {Embarrassing}.] [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embara[,c]ar, Pr. barras bar); pref. em (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See {Bar}.] 1. To… …

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  • 54Embarrassed — Embarrass Em*bar rass ([e^]m*b[a^]r ras), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embarrassed} ([e^]m*b[a^]r rast); p. pr. & vb. n. {Embarrassing}.] [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embara[,c]ar, Pr. barras bar); pref. em (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See {Bar}.] …

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  • 55Embarrassing — Embarrass Em*bar rass ([e^]m*b[a^]r ras), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embarrassed} ([e^]m*b[a^]r rast); p. pr. & vb. n. {Embarrassing}.] [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embara[,c]ar, Pr. barras bar); pref. em (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See {Bar}.] …

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  • 56Wright brothers — Orville Wright Photo: 1903 Born August 19 …

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  • 57Nipper — For other uses, see Nipper (disambiguation). Nipper Francis Barraud s original painting of Nipper looking into an Edison Bell cylinder phonograph Species Canis lupus familiaris …

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  • 58Utopia, Limited — Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress , is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second to last of Gilbert and Sullivan s fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 …

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  • 59Sherwood Anderson — Infobox Writer name = Sherwood Anderson birthname = caption = Anderson in 1933 birthdate = birth date|1876|9|13|mf=y birthplace = Camden, Ohio, United States deathdate = death date and age|1941|3|8|1876|9|13 deathplace = Panama occupation =… …

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  • 60Aporia — (Ancient Greek: polytonic|ἀπορία: impasse ; lack of resources ; puzzlement ; embarrassment ) denotes, in philosophy, a philosophical puzzle or state of puzzlement, and, in rhetoric, a rhetorically useful expression of doubt.PhilosophyIn… …

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