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    douglas


    1. Cody: Why did Douglas Adams choose the number ‘ 42’ to answer the ‘ ultimate question’? It means many different things depending on what context you’re using; for example from the actual story’s perspective, it’s an appropriated warning sent by some unknown alien force, symbolically it’s about cosmic connections, from a philosophical perspective it’s about how easy it is to apply meaning to arbitrary phrases and verses, from a thematic perspective it’s a red herring, because it seems like it has a religious meaning but is actually entirely secular


    2. To prevent the market from being overstocked, too, they have sometimes, in plentiful years, we are told by Dr Douglas {Douglas's Summary,vol


    3. It bears the evident marks of having originally been, what the honest and downright Doctor Douglas assures us it was, a scheme of fraudulent debtors to cheat their creditors


    4. What Douglas MacArthur gave us in this respect cannot be improved on


    5. But he was trying to replace Douglas in the Senate


    6. General Douglas MacArthur, n


    7. William Manchester, a noted historian described this phenomenon relative to Douglas Macarthur, in a 1970"s tome, as the „American Caesar


    8. Otis was relieved of command after two years and replaced by Arthur MacArthur, father of Douglas MacArthur who would command US troops in the Philippines prior to World War II


    9. Stephen Douglas, who undermined the Missouri Compromise for his own political career advancement by offering the Kansas Missouri Act in 1854


    10. Not Fremont, not Stephen Douglas, not Breckinridge, not even Fillmore

    11. Famed General Douglas MacArthur Jr


    12. Exactly who was this Douglas Finney from Boston, Massachusetts? His police record, begun in childhood, included two separate arrests for possession of cocaine with the intent to sell, but through plea-bargaining he had avoided conviction on both occasions: the first had been reduced to possession, and the second dropped altogether


    13. Douglas Finney to Limon Harbor and his violent, premature death


    14. Maybe this Douglas Finney showed up attempting to rebuild the organization, and it all went bad


    15. On the surface, he appeared to be the most innocent of individuals, yet in Douglas Finney’s shirt pocket was found his Nicaraguan Embassy business card


    16. Finally, there was this mention Douglas Finney made of killing a police officer


    17. He ordered that his Port Authority Police Department spare no effort in learning everything there was to know about the American criminal Douglas Finney and, he added, if the Nicaraguan social worker should show up to claim his car he was to be brought to him immediately


    18. Truman read how a certain Douglas Finney, a cocaine trafficker from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, had been found adrift on the morning tide


    19. On March 8, 2010 Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, reported that the


    20. The offenders, Dorian Christian, age 39, Abdul Aziz, age 41, and Christopher Douglas (Spice), age 19 and all residents of Newark, died when the limousine crashed into Mount Moriah Baptist Church on Clinton Avenue in Newark

    21. Douglas, Rhodes and Grimsley are believed to be associates of drug kingpin DaQuan DeAngelo who along with his daughter and the girl’s mother were shot to death outside of the mother’s home in Nutley almost 2 weeks ago


    22. Ponderosa pines, Aspen, and Douglas firs covered half the property


    23. Charles Baxter and Thomas Douglas, whose duty it was to pass the plates, were on the point of rising to their feet


    24. for anyone who opposed your health care plan in 1993? Is that what Craig Livingstone and the nine hundred FBI files were all about in 1996? And, hey, what about hiding that Douglas standard back in 1973


    25. Norman Douglas used to give a hundred a year long ago before he left


    26. As for Norman Douglas, he is a perfect heathen


    27. Faith knew it shone in the house where Norman Douglas lived


    28. She was going to see Norman Douglas and ask him to come back to church, and she began to be afraid of him


    29. She had heard a good deal about Norman Douglas, and she knew that even the biggest boys in school were afraid of him


    30. On the back veranda Norman Douglas himself was sitting, reading a newspaper

    31. Wilson, was getting supper, there was a clatter of dishes--an angry clatter, for Norman Douglas had just had a quarrel with Mrs


    32. Consequently, when Faith stepped on the veranda and Norman Douglas lowered his newspaper she found herself looking into the choleric eyes of an irritated man


    33. Norman Douglas was rather a fine-looking personage in his way


    34. Norman Douglas had just sat down at the supper table, but he still held his newspaper


    35. She was such a handsome young fury that Norman Douglas hardly recognized her


    36. But Norman Douglas knew what the latter meant at least


    37. Norman Douglas came to church the first Sunday in November and made all the sensation he desired


    38. Douglas was well


    39. He knew her better in that ten minutes by the hidden spring than he knew Emmeline Drew or Elizabeth Kirk or Amy Annetta Douglas in a year, or could know them, in a century


    40. The sea had not given up Rosemary's lover; and Norman Douglas, then a handsome, red-haired young giant, noted for wild driving and noisy though harmless escapades, had quarrelled with Ellen and left her in a fit of pique

    41. Norman Douglas had been there and they had met socially for the first time in years, though she had seen him once or twice in church that winter


    42. No gathering was ever stagnant when Norman Douglas was present


    43. He had taken his second cousin, Amy Annetta Douglas, out to supper and seemed rather attentive to her


    44. There's Norman Douglas, too--I like that man, and I'd like to have a good rousing argument with him now and then


    45. Even in that long ago bitterness, when Norman Douglas had, after a fashion, jilted her, she had laughed at herself quite as often as she had cried


    46. Norman Douglas never left anybody in doubt as to his intentions in regard to anything


    47. What influence could SHE have over Norman Douglas? He was in the store when I left, bellowing with laughter over that scandalous letter


    48. Meredith's sermons, and Norman Douglas was always willing to shell out if he got his brains tickled up


    49. But she had happened to glance backward up the valley and had seen Norman Douglas vaulting as airily as a stripling over the old stone dyke of the Bailey garden and thought he was on his way up the hill


    50. Rosemary had never, at any time, liked Norman Douglas very well














































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    Synonyms for "douglas"

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    "douglas" definitions

    United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)