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Brewer's: Walk through One's Part

(To). A theatrical phrase, meaning to repeat one's part at rehearsal verbally, but without dressing for it or acting it. To do anything appointed you…

Men's Walking Results, 1997-1998

WalkingEvent Time Date Set Location20 km: World 1:17:25.6Bernardo Segura, Mexico May 7, 1994 Fana, NOR Olympic 1:19:57Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia Sept. 23, 1988 Seoul American 1:24:26.…

Women's Walking Results, 1997-1998

WalkingEvent Time Date Set Location5 km: World 20:13.26Kerry Saxby-Junna, Australia Feb. 25, 1996Hobart, AUS Olympic Not an event — — American 21:28.17Teresa Vaill Apr. 24, 1993…

tempo

(Encyclopedia) tempo [Ital.,=time], in music, the speed of a composition. The composer's intentions as to tempo are conventionally indicated by a set of Italian terms, of which the principal ones are…

cabbage looper

(Encyclopedia) cabbage looper, moth larva, Trichoplusia ni, that feeds by night on the leaves of cabbage and related plants and is a serious agricultural pest. Like the inchworms (of another moth…

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard

(Encyclopedia) Weber, Wilhelm EduardWeber, Wilhelm Eduardvĭlˈhĕlm āˈd&oomacr;ärt vāˈbər [key], 1804–91, German physicist. He was professor (1831–37, 1849–91) at the Univ. of Göttingen, where he…

Peripatetics

(Encyclopedia) PeripateticsPeripateticspĕrˌəpətĕtˈĭks [key] [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. Theophrastus, friend of Aristotle and cofounder with…

Dunn, Stephen Elliott

(Encyclopedia) Dunn, Stephen Elliott, 1939-2021, American poet, b. Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., Hofstra Univ. (B.A., 1962), Syracuse Univ. (M.F.A…