Hopkins
Americannoun
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Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.
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Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.
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Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.
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Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.
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Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.
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Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.
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a city in SE Minnesota.
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Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)
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Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)
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Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry
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Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme
Example Sentences
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Vali Nasr, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, had said it was likely that Iran would hit its neighbors.
From MarketWatch
Vali Nasr, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, thinks it is likely that Iran tries to hit its neighbors.
From MarketWatch
And that’s why an innovation currently being tested at Johns Hopkins University is so interesting to them all.
Plans had been made to transfer him to the United States for further treatment at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital.
From BBC
A smile thrown in her direction during a parade honoring a visiting king and his princess daughter, a marvelously flighty Miriam Hopkins, almost causes an international incident after the gesture is misinterpreted.
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