Rumford
Americannoun
noun
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To test this idea, Rumford placed the cannon barrels in water and timed how long it took for the water to boil.
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
There are probably few people still around who know much about the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which produced arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2023
Producers will also film in several city locations doubling as 1990s East London, including the gardens of St Nicholas Church and Tower Gardens, Rumford Street and Anfield, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2022
A few years later, a survey conducted by the Maine Department of Health suggested that the town, Rumford, had an especially high incidence of cancer, aplastic anemia and lung disease.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2020
Rumford stayed on in France, where he died, universally esteemed by all but his former wives, in 1814.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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