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There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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They'll tell you - rightly - that it was Lyon, not Springsteen, who really put The Stone Pony on the map (Southside Johnny and the Jukes were the house band there for many years).
Latest News 2009
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They'll tell you - rightly - that it was Lyon, not Springsteen, who really put The Stone Pony on the map (Southside Johnny and the Jukes were the house band there for many years).
Latest News 2009
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For example, the "Jukes" were of mixed race, as were the interestingly-named "Slaughters" of upstate New York, who may have been the "Slahters or Slaters" mentioned in the New York Tribune article Lovecraft read that helped inspire this story.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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The "Jukes" had no inherited capacity or training upon which they could safely presume.
Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity A. E. Winship
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Just as the "Jukes" have intensified their degeneracy by neglect, the Edwards family has magnified capacity and character by industry and education.
Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity A. E. Winship
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Studies of the "Jukes" family and the "Kallikak" family, and others, show convincingly the spread of these defects where defectives marry.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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In the case of the "Jukes" Mr. Dugdale includes in the family both the men and the women who married into the family, but in the case of Mr. Edwards there is no call to include the women who thus came into the family, and it would have magnified the study needlessly.
Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity A. E. Winship
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Twelve hundred descendants have been traced from the one man who founded the "Jukes" family.
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A recital of the life history of Jonathan Edwards, in comparison with that of the celebrated "Jukes" family, emphasises this assumption with
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