Leverrier
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work.
From Time Magazine Archive
A distinguished contemporary of his in France in his earlier years was Leverrier.
From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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