2-methylpropenoic acid
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~ an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics
30 minutes
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~ a half of an hour
60 minutes
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~ a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"
15 minutes
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~ a quarter of an hour
11 November
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~ the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland
17 November
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~ a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s
1st Earl of Balfour
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~ English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
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~ English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)
3rd October Organization
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~ a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia; "ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people"
15 May Organization
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~ a terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah
16 PF
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~ a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits
401-k plan
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~ a retirement savings plan that is funded by employee contributions and (often) matching contributions from the employer; contributions are made from your salary before taxes and the funds grow tax-free until they are withdrawn, at which point they can be converted into an IRA; funds can be transferred if you change employers and you can (to some extent) manage the investments yourself
11-plus
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~ (formerly in Britain) an examination taken by 11 and 12 year old students to select suitable candidates for grammar school
3d radar
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~ radar that will report altitude as well as azimuth and distance of a target
2 Samuel
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~ the second of two books of the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David
1 Samuel
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~ the first of two books in the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David
12-tone system
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~ a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
12-tone music
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~ a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
1st Baron Verulam
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~ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)