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21performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
22United 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… …
23Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 5, 1877 We have assembled to repeat the public ceremonial, begun by Washington, observed by all my predecessors, and now a time honored custom, which marks the commencement of a new term of the… …
24Chester Arthur: State of the Union, 1882 — ▪ Primary Source It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and… …
25Henry James, Sr. — Henry James Sr. (June 3, 1811, Albany, New York December 18, 1882, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American theologian and Swedenborgian, best known as the father of the philosopher William James, novelist Henry James, and diarist Alice… …
26F.Y. Hedley: Marching Through Georgia — ▪ Primary Source Marching Through Georgia is an account of Sherman s March from the standpoint of soldiers in the ranks. F.Y. Hedley, a member of the 32nd Illinois Infantry, set out to describe how the ordinary soldier lived, how he… …
27strong — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, able, able bodied, accented, acid, acrid, active, acute, adamantine, affluent, aggressive, aggressively, alcoholic, alveolar, animated, antagonistically, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, ardent,… …
28strong — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. powerful (see strength); strong smelling, pungent, piquant, etc. (see odor); intense, concentrated, brilliant, bright, vivid, dazzling, etc.; alcoholic, spirituous, hard, bodied, heady, proof (see… …
29Devout — De*vout , a. [OE. devot, devout, F. d[ e]vot, from L. devotus devoted, p. p. of devovere. See {Devote}, v. t.] 1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent;… …
30The devout — Devout De*vout , a. [OE. devot, devout, F. d[ e]vot, from L. devotus devoted, p. p. of devovere. See {Devote}, v. t.] 1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; …
