Charleton
Americannoun
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As a regional cardiac care center, Charleton Memorial handles referrals from an area between Rhode Island and Cape Cod.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
This is how Peter Charleton sees his job as full-time carer to his wife, Mary, who has dementia.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2020
And if we see things that are ugly and unpleasant—such as “mice, cockroaches or snakes”? Well, they simply “serve,” as Walter Charleton put it, “as a foil to set off beauty.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2014
"The normal rule in corporate law is, there is no cakes and ale except for the benefit of the corporation," said Charleton.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2012
But Charleton was one of the most active members of the Royal Society in its early years, and his idiolect, tamed and domesticated by Boyle and Sprat, has become the language of science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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