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31failure — fail·ure n 1: omission of occurrence or performance; specif: a failing to perform a duty or expected action a failure to mitigate damages failure to prosecute 2: a lack of success or adequacy failure of a suit 3: a failing in business …
32HAL-9000 — The computer known as HAL controlled the operations of the spaceship Discovery 1 in STANLEY KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968). Released a year before the first moon landing, the film presents a fully realized version of outer space, and… …
33Spartacus — 1) (1951) HOWARD FAST began work on Spartacus in 1950 while serving a six month prison sentence on a charge of contempt of Congress for his refusal to testify before the House Un American Activities Committee about his alleged communist… …
34Thiers, Louis-Adolphe — (1797 1877) statesman, journalist, historian Born in Marseille, Louis Adolphe Thiers was an attorney in Aix en Provence before coming to Paris, where he frequented literary circles. There, he contributed to a journal, La Constitution, and… …
35Wisteria — , WISTARIA The wisteria is a climbing woody vine clustered with drooping, pealike, purplish or white flowers. The name of this vine was given by Thomas Nuttal, curator of Harvard s Botanical Garden, who made an error in spelling the name of …
36lost labour — noun archaic fruitless effort …
37Carheil, Étienne de — A Breton, of noble birth. Came to Canada as a Jesuit missionary in 1666. After two years spent at Quebec, left in 1668 for his mission among the Cayugas. Spent a number of years there in a zealous but largely fruitless effort to convert the… …
38water haul — noun 1. : a haul of a net that catches no fish 2. : a fruitless effort; often : a trip or call wasted because of failure to meet or see a person intended …
39HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
40international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
