governorship
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Good heavens, Quinn lost the Governorship of Illinois.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2014
Governorship of the Bank of England Lord Mayor of the City of London Head gardener at Barclays headquarters 3.
From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012
He had been born in Bavaria, ninth son of a colonial official whose jobs included the first Governorship of German South West Africa, and had been educated in the cadet college of Karlsruhe.
From Time Magazine Archive
This reminded Michiganders that in November they had for the seventh time elected to the Lieutenant Governorship Oldster Luren Dudley Dickinson, a Republican with a strong rural and prohibitionist following.
From Time Magazine Archive
A crow's-nest from which one may see the perpetually receding horizons of the Governorship and the Presidency.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
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