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Definition of R

  • R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, and 250-254.
  • the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
  • the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole
  • a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

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Mr. R. B. Downs, Director of the Library, University of Illinois.
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In an admirable article in the "Westminster Gazette," for 14 May 1910, by the accomplished scholar and critic, Mr. R. C. Long, called "The Literature of Self-assertion," we obtain a strong smell of the hell-broth now boiling in Russian literature.
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The family of Mr. James R. Jordan has resided in Lake View, Chicago, since the spring of 1871.
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The father, Mr. James R. Jordan, died in October, 1882, aged eighty-four years.
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In the year 18-, having a brother living in the city of R., I went to see him.
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Mr. Nathaniel R. Cobb, a merchant connected with the Baptist church in Boston, in 1821, at the age of twenty-three, drew up and subscribed the following covenant, to which he faithfully adhered till on his death-bed he praised God that by acting according to it he had given in charity more than $40,000.
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W. R. Shafter, commanding the 5th Corps, in everything so far as its duties with Gatling guns were concerned, was regarded as an independent command, kept its own records in the same manner as a company, obtained cooking utensils from the quartermaster and ran its own mess, and furnished its own guard.
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R. Shafter, Commanding. September 13, 1898.
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R. H. Noble, Major and Adjutant General, U. S. V., to be brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for faithful and meritorious service throughout the campaign.
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R. Shafter, Major-General, United States Volunteers, Commanding United States Forces in Cuba.
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J. R. F. Landis, 1st Cavalry, medal of honor.
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It does not improve your tempers or your hearts to learn that _h e a r t_ spells heart, does it?
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Anna Catherina Rose, Maria Magdalena Rose, (daughters of Peter R.) Jan. 28th, 1738.
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I have to confess that r cannot get excited over this particular phase of the Volstead legislation.
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BY HOWARD R. GARIS AUTHOR OF "THE CURLYTOPS SERIES," "BEDTIME STORIES," "UNCLE WIGGILY SERIES," ETC.
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THE END THE CURLYTOPS SERIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS Author of the famous "Bedtime Animal Stories" _12mo.
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For directions for preserving insects, see answer to Katie R. P., Post-office Box, No. 27.
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A R T E R M No. 5.
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R. SIMPSON, 132 Nassau Street, N. Y.
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Example #1
Address subscriptions and communications to the Augustan Reprint Society, in care of one of the General Editors.
Example #2
Photo-Lithoprint Reproduction EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.
Example #3
Mr. Leslie Bliss, Director of the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Example #4
Mr. William Jackson, Director of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Example #5
Even before the Revolution Gorki had expressed the spirit of revolt; but his position, extreme as it appears to an Anglo-Saxon, has been left far behind by Artsybashev, who, with the genuine Russian love of the reductio ad absurdum, has reached the farthest limits of moral anarchy in the creation of his hero Sanin.
Example #6
Since the failure of the Revolution, there has been a marked revolt in Russia against three great ideas that have at different times dominated Russian literature: the quiet pessimism of Turgenev, the Christian non-resistance religion of Tolstoi, and the familiar Russian type of will-less philosophy.

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