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Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
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“Barbarism,” said retired NYPD Officer Jim Smith on Thursday.
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In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
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That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
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And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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British Dictionary definitions for first officer

first officer

noun

another name for first mate

the member of an aircraft crew who is second in command to the captain

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