Jacobs

[jey-kuhbz]

noun

A·let·ta [uh-let-uh; Du. ah-let-ah] , 1854–1929, Dutch physician and pioneer of the birth control movement.

Helen Hull, 1908–97, U.S. tennis player.

Hir·sch(el)

[hur-shuhl] , 1904–70, U.S. thoroughbred horse trainer.

Jane, 1916–2006, U.S. author and urbanologist.

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the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs. Gen. 25:24–34.

Fran·çois [frahn-swa] , born 1920, French geneticist: Nobel prize for medicine 1965.

a male given name: from a hebrew word meaning “supplanter.”

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jacobs
noun
1.	English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
2.	United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
3.	Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

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