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Suth⋅er⋅land

  [suhth-er-luhnd]
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1. Earl Wilbur, Jr., 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1971.
2. George, 1862–1942, U.S. politician and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1922–38.
3. Dame Joan, born 1926, Australian soprano.
4. Also called Suth⋅er⋅land⋅shire  [suhth-er-luhnd-sheer, -sher] . a historic county in N Scotland.
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Suth·er·land   (sŭth'ər-lənd)   
British-born American jurist and politician. He served as a U.S. representative (1901-1903) and senator (1905-1917) from Utah and was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1922-1938).
Sutherland, Joan Born 1926.  
Australian operatic soprano noted especially for her interpretations of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Vincenzo Bellini's Norma.
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Sutherland Suth·er·land (sŭ&phonth;'ər-lənd), Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915-1974.

American physiologist. He won a 1971 Nobel Prize for showing that cyclic AMP within the cell is the agent that moderates the action of hormones.

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Sutherland

historichistoric county, northern Scotland. It faces the North Sea on the east and the Atlantic Ocean on the north and northwest, where Cape Wrath, with its magnificent cliffs, is mainland Great Britain's northwestern extremity. It lies entirely within the Highland council area.

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