Fairbanks

[ fair-bangks ]

/ ˈfɛərˌbæŋks /

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Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.

Douglas, 1883–1939, U.S. motion-picture actor.

a city in central Alaska, on the Tanana River.

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Just last year, a state judge in Fairbanks said the state’s courts were in crisis, declaring that turnover among public defenders had delayed criminal trials and denied justice to both victims and defendants.
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His looks were modeled after Douglas Fairbanks, the actor best known for playing Robin Hood and Zorro during the silent era.
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Fairbanks, AK Over the past 50 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the United States.
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Well, Mrs. Fairbanks has just destroyed another four hours' work for me.
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It proved to be occupied by two young clerks of the trading establishment, named Ashmun and Fairbanks.
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But the Fairbanks family are not to be trustedwe have had our own troubles with those girls and their unscrupulous father.
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The next moment the riders galloped off, and the Scouts suspected correctly that one of the men was Francis Fairbanks.
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British Dictionary definitions for Fairbanks (1 of 2)

Fairbanks¹

/ (ˈfɛəˌbæŋks) /

noun

a city in central Alaska, at the terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 30 970 (2003 est)

British Dictionary definitions for Fairbanks (2 of 2)

Fairbanks²

/ (ˈfɛəˌbæŋks) /

noun

Douglas (Elton), real name Julius Ullman. 1883–1939, US film actor and producer

his son, Douglas, Jnr. 1909–2000, US film actor

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