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Kerr

[ kur kahr ]

noun

  1. Clark, 1911–2003, U.S. educator: president of the University of California 1958–67.
  2. Michael Crawford, 1827–76, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1875–76.
  3. Walter F., 1913–96, U.S. drama critic and author.
  4. a male given name.


Kerr

/ kɜː /

noun

  1. KerrSir John Robert19141991MAustralianPOLITICS: statesman Sir John Robert. 1914–91, Australian public servant. As governor general of Australia (1974–77), he dismissed the Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam (1975) amid great controversy


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Kerr found similar results among some 260 adults who visited a haunted house in Pittsburgh.

With four titles in eight years, Kerr sits behind only Phil Jackson, Red Auerbach, John Kundla, Pat Riley and Gregg Popovich for the most in NBA history.

Each game was emblematic of his work in this series as a whole, during which he subsisted on the fifth-toughest diet of shots among any of the 23 playoff series he’s played in since Kerr took over as head coach, according to Second Spectrum.

Rivers has been an alpine race coach for twenty years and worked closely with Kerr on his Olympic bid.

From Time

The opinion, Kerr said, highlighted the need for higher courts and Congress to update the 35-year-old Stored Communications Act.

Miranda Kerr made a point of being photographed breastfeeding in red pumps to announce her postpartum return to modeling.

No one knows if Kerr actually succumbed to Bieber's "boyish" "charms," but she and Bloom did end up separating in 2013.

Back in the safety of his hotel room, Bieber then posted a picture of Miranda Kerr wearing a revealing swim suit.

Kerr was adamant that the gorilla tie was not a statement about evolution, but “about life.”

Kerr has a skin care line because she has nice skin, not because she studied for eight years to get nice skin.

Eight men marched one evening into Llanyglo, bawling a bawdy chorus, with Sam Kerr showing the way.

For a time Tommy Kerr, who had been twice run in, had served as a scapegoat, but that was little permanent help.

Then, while this offer was still neither accepted nor rejected, something else came to Tommy Kerr's ears.

I hear there is improvements at Plas Kerr; you have a grand road to your house soon, whatever!

Then Tommy Kerr's brain, which for more than seven hours had been as steady as a sleeping top, gave a little wobble.

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