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NOUN
- Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)
- 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)
- English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
- Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)
- United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)
- United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)
- American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)
- a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)
- United States literary critic (1895-1972)
- Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)
- author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
How To Use Wilson In A Sentence
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
- If a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. - Woodrow Wilson
- Somewhere in the darkest, dingiest corner of hell, Andrew Wilson is laughing," Beuke told jurors. Jon Burge Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations
- September 9th, 2009 10: 03 pm ET cong. wilson 's outburst, is the worse thing i have heard in the congress to a president. GOP congressman heckles Obama during health-care speech
- Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
- We talk about why the new generation slipstream is not the fusion of literary fiction and SF/F. Fri 1200 Remembering Robert Anton WILSON Archive 2007-08-01
- Wilson drills and reams a hole that will form the beginning of the bolt channel.
- Mr Wilson says organic farms reverse many modern agricultural trends.
- So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.