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Garland, Hamlin

(Encyclopedia) Garland, Hamlin, 1860–1940, American author, b. near West Salem, Wis. He grew up in the Middle Western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography.…

Maher-shalal-hash-baz

(Encyclopedia) Maher-shalal-hash-bazMaher-shalal-hash-bazmāˈər-shălˈəl-hăsh-băz [key] [Heb.,=the spoil speeds, the prey hastens], in the Bible, name of Isaiah's son, symbolizing hope for Judah during…

Achan

(Encyclopedia) AchanAchanāˈkăn [key] or AcharAcharāˈkär [key], in the Bible, Judahite who kept some of the spoil from the city of Jericho. For this he was stoned.

A Boy's Will: Spoils of the Dead

by Robert Frost The Tuft of FlowersPan with UsSpoils of the Dead about death; TWO fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the woods With the flowers to play. The flowers…

The Koran/Sura VIII — The Spoils

Sura VIII — The Spoils[967] Medina — 76 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful THEY will question thee about THE SPOILS. SAY: The spoils are God's and the apostle's.…

Brewer's: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child

Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says: Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare…

An Officer and a Gentleman?

In "The General's Daughter," James isn't out of the Woods yet by Peter Keough In this summer's The General's Daughter, Woods plays one of a host of suspects in a grisly homicide. "Some kid goes…

Office Pools

The real NCAA action isn't under the backboard—it's above the water cooler by Mike Morrison The FBI estimates that over $2.5 billion is gambled on the NCAA tournament, with only $80 million bet…

Office Manager

Anonymous Tell us about your work -- what do you do? I serve as Office Manager to a law firm with offices in Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida. My job duties…