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
— Noun
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– not validated~ 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
15 May Organization
— Noun
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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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– not validated~ 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
16 PF
— Noun
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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
— Noun
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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from the employer; contributions are made from your salary before taxes and the funds grow tax-free until they are withdrawn, at which point they can be converted into an IRA; funds can be transferred if you change employers and you can (to some extent) manage the investments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
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
— Noun
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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)
1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
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~ English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)
440 yards
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~ a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile
880 yards
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~ a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile