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  • noun An abbreviation of veterinary.

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  • Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr., the expected winner of the Bronx borough presidency, shook the Bronx political scene Wednesday by announcing he will name veter ...

    NY Daily News 2009

  • The federal criminal trial of five veter an peace activists facing several charges was recessed until Monday after their jury announced late Friday they were unable...

    Bill Quigley: Jury for Tacoma Trident Peace Activists Still Out Bill Quigley 2010

  • April 30, 2008, two days after Workers Memorial Day last spring, a mammoth steel girder crushed to death a 61-year-old crane repairman who worked at ArcelorMittal in Burns Harbor, Ind. A 33-year-veter ...

    Leo W. Gerard: Workers Need a Robust OSHA for Their Survival 2009

  • April 30, 2008, two days after Workers Memorial Day last spring, a mammoth steel girder crushed to death a 61-year-old crane repairman who worked at ArcelorMittal in Burns Harbor, Ind. A 33-year-veter ...

    Leo W. Gerard: Workers Need a Robust OSHA for Their Survival 2009

  • Bush administration caught screwing Cold War veter...

    03/11/2007 2007

  • Two of the veter - ans earned a special place in his affections:

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • He knew that the long and prosperous peace which contented most men was not to the liking of some of his knights, not the young men only, but the war veter ans, men who knew no other life but that of fighting.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • Tanned by summer hunts, forearms scarred by combat training with the veter -

    The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981

  • [307] The loose leaf was then removed, and a new one placed instead, in view of the year to come: "In fine vero anni non quicumque voluerit sed cui injunctum fuerit, quod verius et melius censuerit ad posteritatis notitiam transmittendum, in corpore libri succincta brevitate describat; et tunc veter scedula subtracta nova imponatur."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • II, cxlii; Schultze "De Christ.veter. rebus sepulchr.",

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

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