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.
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Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work.
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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.
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The acute calculations of Adams and Leverrier would have been very soon forgotten, if Neptune had not appeared to vindicate their correctness.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
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