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Corbett

[ kawr-bit ]

noun

  1. James John Gentleman Jim, 1866–1933, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1892–97.


Corbett

/ ˈkɔːbət /

noun

  1. mountaineering any separate mountain peak between 2500 feet and 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only, but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles


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Pennsylvania is purple personified, and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is collapsing in the Keystone State.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal are all on board.

Even Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who supports the suit against the Montgomery County clerk, thinks this is ridiculous.

Points for menschitude to Phil Corbett of the Times, the only one of the three to respond.

The three—Lichtblau, Risen, and Corbett—were an unlikely combination.

The lighter man was slippery as an eel, as hard to hit as a Corbett.

And that brick house with the broken window was where "Slats" Corbett, former lieutenant of Tom's gang, had lived.

Two months later, however, the mill closed down for the winter and Mr. Corbett went to the coast, looking for work.

Albert E. Corbett was reared at home and under the direction of his father learned the miller's trade.

Mrs. Corbett survives her husband and has proven herself a capable business woman, wisely managing the property left to her.

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