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    Roaring Forties
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ROARING FORTIES name applied, especially by sailors, to the latitudes between 40 S and...steady. Unlike the winds in the Northern Hemisphere, those in the roaring forties are not impeded by large land areas...
     
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    Wilder, Laura Ingalls
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...married (1885) Almanzo Wilder, and with him moved (1894) to a farm in the Missouri Ozarks. She began writing in her forties and, encouraged by her daughter, the writer Rose Lane, Wilder recorded tales of her childhood. The resulting novels, lively...
     
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    Hopkins, William
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...mathematics tutor. Many of Englands best mathematicians and mathematical physicists of the time were his students. In his early forties he became interested in geology. He proposed mathematical models of shifts of the earths crust, of the nature of the earths...
     
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    Trilling, Lionel
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...literary and cultural critic. Long a reviewer for the Nation magazine, she collected many of her pieces in Reviewing the Forties (1978). Her works also include We Must March My Darlings (1977), an essay collection; Mrs. Harris (1981), a study...
     
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    Wind
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...direction of the prevailing winds but within itself maintains a circulatory wind pattern. See also chinook ; climate ; roaring forties ; sandstorm ; sirocco ; weather . Localized Influences on Wind Patterns The diurnal, or daily, heating and cooling of land...
     

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