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Edwardsville

[ ed-werdz-vil ]

noun

  1. a town in SW Illinois.


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He works with vertebrates — animals with backbones — at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado ripping through an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on December 10, 2021—killing six employees—the online retailer is reportedly reviewing its policy over mobile phone bans during working hours.

Nonetheless, the devastating effects of the Edwardsville storm will up the pressure on employers to allow employees to keep hold of their phones, if only for their own safety.

As a tornado neared an Amazon delivery station in Edwardsville, in western Illinois, drivers and other staff were told to head to the bathrooms, because the building lacked better basement shelters.

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Edwardsville, near the Mississippi river, has a land-office.

Run down one of the poll-books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names.

I also had the pleasure to receive at Edwardsville the pamphlet you were so good as to enclose me by mail.

The former is to be tried at Edwardsville next month—the latter at this place in April.

Hough's company frum down Edwardsville way—greener then grass, most ov 'em.

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