Princeton
a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,197 feet (4,327 meters).
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Leave it to a Princeton man to ask his date what she’s reading.
Date Lab: Talking politics on a first date is usually a no-no. But it couldn’t be avoided after a year like this one. | Damona Hoffman | March 18, 2021 | Washington PostI had something of a crisis when I first went to Princeton and graduate school.
I finished in three years and then went off to do graduate work in mathematics at Princeton.
Getting just the US on track to zero out emissions across its economy will require massive investments, and they need to start now, according to a study by Princeton researchers released last month.
The pandemic taught us how not to deal with climate change | James Temple | January 1, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewI went to Princeton to interview him, during the cold and wet fall of 1992.
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners | Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky, | December 2, 2020 | Nautilus
Margot Canaday here at Princeton writes on sexuality and American politics.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society | Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a student at Princeton University, his primary interest, he later admitted, was playing basketball.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era | Gary May | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPrinceton is still publishing new volumes of the Jefferson papers.
But Sam Wang of Princeton stands almost alone in forecasting that the Democrats will just barely hold their Senate majority.
Meet the One Numbers-Cruncher Who Foresees Democrats Holding the Senate | Linda Killian | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe vividly remembers Shirley Tilghman, then the president of Princeton, asking for his prediction.
Meet the One Numbers-Cruncher Who Foresees Democrats Holding the Senate | Linda Killian | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRetirement is as pleasing, & desirable to me here as at Princeton, or Cohansie!
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. | Philip Vickers FithianWashington finally won the Battle of Princeton, but Mercer was a part of the price he paid.
Historic Fredericksburg | John T. GoolrickHe came over for his college course at Princeton, but always rejoined her during his holidays.
Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. JacksonHarvard came nearly a century later, Yale a full century and a half, Princeton more than two centuries.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshOf these, one was the Princeton, the screw-steamer of which the machinery was designed by Ericsson.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston
British Dictionary definitions for Princeton
/ (ˈprɪnstən) /
a town in central New Jersey: settled by Quakers in 1696; an important educational centre, seat of Princeton University (founded at Elizabeth in 1747 and moved here in 1756); scene of the battle (1777) during the War of American Independence in which Washington's troops defeated the British on the university campus. Pop: 13 577 (2003 est)
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