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noun Electronics.

a battery or other source of power for heating the filament or cathode heater of an electron tube.

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Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
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But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
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If you answered seven or more of these correctly, you are eligible for a lifetime supply of Metamucil.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
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First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
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What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?
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You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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