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71History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas) — Natural gas has been used almost as long as crude oil in Canada, but its commercial development was not as rapid. This is because of special properties of this energy commodity: it is a gas, and it frequently contains impurities. The technical… …
72corset — corsetless, adj. /kawr sit/, n. 1. Sometimes, corsets. a close fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, esp. by women, to shape and support the… …
73Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
74aerospace industry — Introduction assemblage of manufacturing concerns that deal with vehicular flight within and beyond the Earth s atmosphere. (The term aerospace is derived from the words aeronautics and spaceflight.) The aerospace industry is engaged in the …
75On Horsemanship — is the English title usually given to Περὶ ἱππικῆς, peri hippikēs, one of the two treatises on horsemanship by the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon (c. 430 – 354 BC). Other common titles for this work are De equis alendis and The Art of… …
76reserved — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial, aposiopestic, backward, bashful, blank, brief, brusque, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, clipped, close, close lipped, close tongued, closemouthed, cold,… …
77Restraint — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Restraint >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 restraint restraint Sgm: N 1 hindrance hindrance &c. 706 Sgm: N 1 coercion coercion &c.(compulsion) 744 Sgm: N 1 cohibition cohibition constraint repression …
78uptight — (adj.) tense, slang, 1934, from UP (Cf. up) + TIGHT (Cf. tight). Meaning straight laced first recorded 1969. It was used in a sense of excellent in jazz slang c.1962 …
79Clothing — The dress in barbarian Europe was most likely a combination of traditional Germanic clothing and imported Roman fashions. Clothing was relatively uniform throughout the Roman and post Roman world, although there was variation in style and… …
80rigid — adj 1. stiff, hard, inflexible, unflexible, non flexible, unbendable, unbending, unyielding; inelastic, unplastic, nonpliant, unmalleable, nonmailable; tight, tense, taut, Inf. stiff as a poker, Inf. stiff as a ramrod. 2. fixed, set, firm,… …
