Wilson
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Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) 1913–91, English writer.
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August, 1945-2005, U.S. playwright.
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Charles Thomson Rees 1869–1959, Scottish physicist: Nobel Prize 1927.
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Edith Bolling (Galt), 1872–1961, U.S. First Lady 1915–21 (second wife of Woodrow Wilson).
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Edmund, 1895–1972, U.S. literary and social critic.
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Ellen Louise Axson, 1860–1914, U.S. First Lady 1913–14 (first wife of Woodrow Wilson).
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Harriet, 1825–1900, U.S. novelist: first African American woman to publish a novel.
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Henry Jeremiah Jones Colbath or Colbaith, 1812–75, U.S. politician: vice president of the United States. 1873–75.
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James, 1742–98, U.S. jurist, born in Scotland: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1789–98.
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Sir (James) Harold, 1916–95, British statesman: prime minister 1964–70, 1974–76.
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John Christopher North, 1785–1854, Scottish poet, journalist, and critic.
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Lanford 1937–2011, U.S. playwright.
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Robert W(oodrow), born 1936, U.S. radio astronomer: Nobel Prize in physics 1978.
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Sloan, 1920–2003, U.S. journalist and novelist.
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(Thomas) Woodrow, 1856–1924, 28th president of the U.S. 1913–21: Nobel Peace Prize 1919.
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Mount Wilson, a mountain in southwestern California, near Pasadena: observatory. 5,710 feet (1,740 meters).
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a city in eastern North Carolina.
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a male given name.
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Alexander. 1766–1813, Scottish ornithologist in the US
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Sir Angus ( Frank Johnstone ). 1913–91, British writer, whose works include the collection of short stories The Wrong Set (1949) and the novels Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) and No Laughing Matter (1967)
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Charles Thomson Rees. 1869–1959, Scottish physicist, who invented the cloud chamber: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1927
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Edmund. 1895–1972, US critic, noted esp for Axel's Castle (1931), a study of the symbolist movement
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( James ) Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx. 1916–95, British Labour statesman; prime minister (1964–70; 1974–76)
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Jacqueline . born 1945, British writer for older girls; her best-selling books include The Story of Tracey Beaker (1991), The Illustrated Mum (1998), and Girls in Tears (2002).
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Richard. 1714–82, Welsh landscape painter
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( Thomas ) Woodrow (ˈwʊdrəʊ). 1856–1924, US Democratic statesman; 28th president of the US (1913–21). He led the US into World War I in 1917 and proposed the Fourteen Points (1918) as a basis for peace. Although he secured the formation of the League of Nations, the US Senate refused to support it: Nobel peace prize 1919
Other Word Forms
- Wilsonian adjective
Example Sentences
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Or as the late Factory Records boss Tony Wilson once put it: "What Manchester does today, London does tomorrow."
From BBC
District Judge Stephen V. Wilson read the verdict, people in the gallery began to cry, tears silently streaming down their faces.
From Los Angeles Times
Now, eight months after Brian Wilson’s death in June at age 82, a new box set looks back at the era as an expressive outpouring led by the band’s rejuvenated visionary.
From Los Angeles Times
Wilson proposed declassifying the board for annual elections and a Brand Product Committee, the latter of which was rejected.
From Barron's
Mr. Turley describes the Philadelphia mob’s 1779 assault on the home of James Wilson—what would come to be known as the Fort Wilson riot.
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