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Appleton

[ ap-uhl-tuhn ]

noun

  1. Sir Edward Victor, 1892–1965, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1947.
  2. a city in E Wisconsin.


Appleton

/ ˈæpəltən /

noun

  1. AppletonSir Edward (Victor)18921965MEnglishSCIENCE: physicist Sir Edward ( Victor ). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947


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Milwaukee is by far its largest city, anchoring the southeast corner of the state, followed by fast-growing Madison and Kenosha in the southern tier and Green Bay, Oshkosh and Appleton farther north.

On passing into the Appleton ownership it had been enlarged and beautified and named "Holbrook Hall."

In these bequests the legators fulfilled the wishes of their brother, Horace Appleton Haven, as expressed half a century ago.

After graduating from high school, she did work for the Appleton Crescent in the capacity of news collector and reporter.

It was written by Nathaniel Appleton, a co-worker with Otis, and an advanced thinker on the subject of emancipation.

Now then, will Harper or Appleton, or Putnam give me $200,000 for those debts and my two-thirds interest in the firm?

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