(land at front of building etc)

  • 51bulldozer — UK [ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə(r)] / US [ˈbʊlˌdoʊzər] noun [countable] Word forms bulldozer : singular bulldozer plural bulldozers a heavy vehicle with a large curved open container at the front, used for moving earth and stones, destroying buildings etc,… …

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  • 52frontage — front•age [[t]ˈfrʌn tɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) bui the front of a building or lot 2) the lineal extent of this front 3) the direction it faces 4) land abutting on a river, street, etc 5) the space lying between a building and the street, a body of water,… …

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  • 53National Industrial Recovery Act — Front page of the National Industrial Recovery Act, as signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 16, 1933. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933 (Ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195, formerly codified… …

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  • 54frontage — front|age [ˈfrʌntıdʒ] n [U] the part of a building or piece of land that is along a road, river etc …

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  • 55HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 56JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …

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  • 57ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …

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  • 58china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 59United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 60SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …

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