Dubois
- (Ma·rie) Eu·gène (Fran·çois Tho·mas) [ma-ree œ-zhen frahn-swa taw-mah] /maˈri œˈʒɛn frɑ̃ˈswa tɔˈmɑ/, 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist.
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Contemporary Examples of dubois
DuBois writes some characters with more juiciness than others.
Those books might seek to exonerate, but duBois wants to explain.
DuBois is a noted expert on the intersection of religion and public life.
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DuBois' elitism is the foundation of all his thinking and observation.
DuBois was a man of many ideas; Washington, of just one: the proverbial contrast of hedgehog and fox.
Historical Examples of dubois
He wished to have the time to make Dubois swallow this pill.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
Excepting the Abbe Dubois there is no priest in my son's favour.
The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, CompleteElizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
Then followed protestations from Dubois and replies from the Marechal.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
But Dubois was perfectly informed of it, and never pardoned me.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
When we were alone, I asked her why she had refused the pleasure offered by Dubois.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Dubois
- W (illiam) E (dward) B (urghardt). 1868–1963, US Black sociologist, writer, and political activist; a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Dubois
- Dutch paleontologist who in 1891 discovered in Java a fossil hominid which he believed to be the so-called missing link between the apes and humans on the evolutionary ladder. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, but it is now known as Homo erectus.