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Court papers identified the three men as Ricardo Hunter, 53, and Daniel Chapman, 23, of the District, and Nathaniel Bailey, 57, of Capitol Heights.
Trio charged in armored car heist try Del Quentin Wilber 2011
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Court papers identified the three men as Ricardo Hunter, 53, and Daniel Chapman, 23, of the District, and Nathaniel Bailey, 57, of Capitol Heights.
Trio charged in attempted armored car heist Del Quentin Wilber 2011
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Court papers identified the three men as Ricardo Hunter, 53, and Daniel Chapman, 23, of the District, and Nathaniel Bailey, 57, of Capitol Heights.
Trio charged in attempted armored car heist Del Quentin Wilber 2011
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Tyler Nathaniel Bailey, 27, 10350 Ohio 550, Barlow, and Tyson Chad Hill, 27, 175 Goose Run Road, Marietta, were named as codefendants in an indictment with three counts of burglary, two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of conspiracy to commit burglary and petit larceny from November 2007.
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Yet it was conceded that the idea was not entirely new: Nathaniel Bailey had used woodcuts in the two-volume edition of his Universal Etymological English Dictionary
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Nathaniel Bailey in his Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721) designated cat as ` a creature well-known, 'horse as ` a beast well-known,' hand as ` a member of the body, 'finger as ` a member of the hand,' tree as ` a thing well-known, 'bread as ` the staff of life,' and five as ` V or 5. '
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The earliest definition, in Nathaniel Bailey’s 1727 dictionary, is “parcimonious” (now spelled parsimonious and considered a bookish term for a cheapskate) and “niggardly” (now used less frequently because some confuse it with a racial slur).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The earliest definition, in Nathaniel Bailey’s 1727 dictionary, is “parcimonious” (now spelled parsimonious and considered a bookish term for a cheapskate) and “niggardly” (now used less frequently because some confuse it with a racial slur).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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