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Stanford   /stˈænfərd/   Listen
Stanford

noun
1.
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893).  Synonym: Leland Stanford.
2.
A university in California.  Synonym: Stanford University.



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"Stanford" Quotes from Famous Books



... At Stanford University another astronomer is concentrating the efforts of part of his laboratory on behalf of a similar idea. The chances are, he believes, "that the superior races of other planets in other galaxies have already developed ...
— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics

... and killed Stanford White on the 25th day of June, 1905. Although most of the Coroner's jury which first sat upon the case considered him irrational, he was committed to the Tombs and, having been indicted for murder, remained there over six months pending his trial. During that time it was a matter of common knowledge ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train

... of anything better to do I have been grinding away at a book on the Geography of Australia for Stanford ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant

... critical. But Harold's generalship was now as consummate as his valour had been daring. He kept his men true to their irrefragable line. Even if fragments splintered off, each fragment threw itself into the form of the resistless wedge. One Norwegian, standing on the bridge of Stanford, long guarded that pass; and no less than forty Saxons are said to have perished by his arm. To him the English King sent a generous pledge, not only of safety for the life, but honour for the valour. The viking refused to surrender, and fell at last by a javelin ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Pyramids yesterday and I am very sore today. It sounds easy because so many people do it, but they do it because they don't know. I have been putting it off, and putting it off, until I felt ashamed to such a degree that I had to go. Little had never been either, so we went out together and met Stanford White and the Emmetts there, and we all went up. I would rather go into Central Africa than do it again. I am getting fat and that's about it—and I had to half pull a much fatter man than myself who pretended to help me. I finally told them I'd go alone unless ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... you have done yet. I can recommend it."—Earl Barnes, Professor in Leland Stanford University, Palo ...
— Almost A Man • Mary Wood-Allen

... a few simple exercises in voice production. Excellent suggestions for these will be found in a little book called Class Singing for Schools, with a preface by Sir Charles Stanford, published by Stainer & Bell, also in the Board of Education Memorandum on Music. A special point must be dwelt on. Children should never be allowed to use the chest register. Their voices should be trained downwards. In the singing of scales there should be a leap ...
— Music As A Language - Lectures to Music Students • Ethel Home

... and manliness of this answer, Doctor Cavendish urged him no further; but expressing his regret that he could not see him again until the end of the week, as he was obliged to go to Stanford next day on a medical consultation, he shook hands with him at the door of Mrs. Robson and ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter



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