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Although Rojas and Quine didn’t need a passport for their trips, they might as well have traveled to a foreign land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
Frank Quine, 84, assistant dean and development director of the University of Maryland’s journalism school from 1988 to 2010, died Oct.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
According to Valderrama, Peters was seriously considering returning to her goal of studying medicine when she was cast in 1942’s "Tish" alongside Richard Quine.
From Fox News ● Jan. 14, 2021
Rovelli ably brings in the thoughts of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, sociologist Émile Durkheim and psychologist William James, along with physicist-favourite philosophers such as Hilary Putnam and Willard Van Orman Quine.
From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2018
The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine goes even further and maintains that experience never forces one to reject any particular belief.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
McDermid has now rechristened herself the "quine of crime", getting that title printed on a T-shirt and using it to introduce herself at another book festival session.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2022
No; a quine in the lottery, won by Europe, and paid by France; it was hardly worth while erecting a lion for it.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
These look like inflections; but in fact d, is simply a relic of quide, hereafter, later, and n stands in the same relation to quine, which means “and also.”
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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