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- proper n. A country in North America, sharing land borders with Canada and Mexico, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and including Alaska, Hawaii, and several territories.
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- n. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
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Goldstein, L. I. Lowney, and B. K. Pal, Stereospecific and nonspecific interactions of the morphine congener levorphanol in subcellular fractions of mouse brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 58 1971: 1742-47.
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Manufactured in the United States of America 1210 FFG First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Robert described his new property, much of it rolling arable terrain drained by the Genesee River, as “the best tract of Country now remaining in a body unoccupied within the limits of the United States of America for settlement of Foreigners who wish to live contiguous to each other.”
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Chung, Isolation and structure of an untriakontapeptide with opiate activity from camel pituitary glands, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 73 1976: 1145-48.
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The Escutcheon is borne on the breast of an American Eagle without any other supporters, to denote that the United States of America ought to rely on their own Virtue.
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Arnon, Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against acetaldehyde-containing epitopes in acetaldehydeprotein adducts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83 1986: 7923-27.
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Guillemin, Beta-lipotropin as a prohormone for the morphinomimetic peptides, endorphins and enkephalins, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 73 1976: 2156-59.
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DeLallo, A. H. Briggs, and J. E. Wallace, Ethanol acceptance as a function of genotype amounts of brain MET-enkephalin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 80 1983: 6510-12.
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Goldstein, and C. H. Li, Opioid activity of a peptide, beta-lipotrophv(61-91), derived from beta-lipotropin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 73 (1976): 1821-23.
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The United States of America has a transcendent heritage of liberty rooted in self-government and personal responsibility, the result of a revolutionary two-hundred-year-old “experiment” so gloriously successful it became a shining light in an otherwise mostly dark world.
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