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Republican St. Louis Election Board official Kevin Coan was arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.
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Special condemnation was reserved for a type called Coan silk, a flimsy, diaphanous material woven by women on the island of Cos, which was apparently all the rage among Roman women of the upper classes yet frowned upon by some as a transparent fabric suitable only for a prostitute or a loose woman.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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The most obvious feature, the outstanding element that at once strikes the modern observer in these 'Coan' writings, is the enormous emphasis laid on the actual course of disease.
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The doctor had been heard to observe with a subdued triumph that he really would like to see how "Coan" would "get round" that passage in Clement, but he could not have that pleasure, because "Coan" did not get anywhere near it, but struck off as far as possible from it into a region of quotations on his own side; and as his audience were not particularly fitted to adjudicate nice points in chronology, and as quotations from the Church Fathers on all sides of almost any subject under the sun are plentiful as black-berries in August, Mr. Coan succeeded in making his side to the full as irrefragable in the eyes of his hearers as the doctor's in those of his.
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It is a caricature of the Devil acknowledging Miss Sin in Milton. "] [533] {509} [For the" Coan "skirts of the First Empire, see the fashion plates and Gillray's and Rowlandson's caricatures _passim_.] [he] _It shall be me they'll find the trustiest patriot_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Kansas was thus ordered by the conference to forfeit the two games Coan played in.
Rivals Who Truly Have Scores to Settle Ben Cohen 2011
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Earlier that month, the NCAA investigated and found that Coan had been illegally recruited.
Rivals Who Truly Have Scores to Settle Ben Cohen 2011
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That day, Kansas got two touchdowns from Bert Coan, a running back who had transferred from Texas Christian.
Rivals Who Truly Have Scores to Settle Ben Cohen 2011
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In one recent study, James A. Coan, an assistant professor of psychology and a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, recruited 16 women who scored relatively high on a questionnaire assessing marital happiness.
Is There a Health Advantage to Being Married? | Impact Lab 2010
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Coan says the study simulates how a supportive marriage and partnership gives the brain the opportunity to outsource some of its most difficult neural work.
Is There a Health Advantage to Being Married? | Impact Lab 2010
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