Eccles
Sir John Ca·rew [kuh-roo], /kəˈru/, 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
Mar·ri·ner Stod·dard [mar-uh-ner stod-erd], /ˈmær ə nər ˈstɒd ərd/, 1890–1977, U.S. economist and banker.
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Other definitions for eccles. (2 of 3)
ecclesiastic.
ecclesiastical.
Other definitions for Eccles. (3 of 3)
Ecclesiastes.
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How to use Eccles in a sentence
Ninety-four years of reasonably deliberative history was thus replicated in three fortnights of panic inside the Eccles Building.
The protest/counter-protest outside the Eccles Theater being just one piece of his elaborate fabric.
Eccles had reached the same conclusion as Keynes, but from personal observation of the 1929 crash.
He ignored, too, his chairman of the Federal Reserve, Marriner Eccles, a small, peppery Mormon banker from Utah.
Eccles stressed to FDR, “the crucial consideration is not the size of the deficit but the level of national income.”
"Makes one feel jolly rotten," remarked Eccles, the "Royal Oak's" gunnery jack.
The Dreadnought of the Air | Percy F. WestermanJust then Eccles and Plumbly, the assistant paymaster, entered the cabin and expressed their intention of "standing in."
The Dreadnought of the Air | Percy F. WestermanRobertson did one great thing: he drew the great and vital tragi-comic figure of Eccles.
The English Stage | Augustin Filon"Poor Bob Eccles didn't want no stiffening when he come down first," Sedgett interjected.
Rhoda Fleming, Complete | George MeredithAt a safe distance, he called: "Bad news that about Bob Eccles swallowing a blow yesterday!"
Rhoda Fleming, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for Eccles (1 of 3)
/ (ˈɛkəlz) /
a town in NW England, in Salford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 36 610 (2001)
British Dictionary definitions for Eccles (2 of 3)
/ (ˈɛkəlz) /
Sir John Carew. 1903–97, Australian physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology (1963) with A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley for their work on conduction of nervous impulses
British Dictionary definitions for Eccles. (3 of 3)
Eccl.
/ Bible /
Ecclesiastes
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