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Steffens

[ stef-uhnz ]

noun

  1. (Joseph) Lincoln, 1866–1936, U.S. author, journalist, and editor.


Steffens

/ ˈstɛfənz /

noun

  1. Steffens(Joseph) Lincoln18661936MUSPOLITICS: political analyst ( Joseph ) Lincoln. 1866–1936, US political analyst, known for his exposure of political corruption


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You’ll be left with a crunchy film of starch, Steffens says.

The cornstarch you find in the store is made by grinding up corn, combining it with water, and extracting all the other parts of the corn you don’t need, such as the seed coating and protein, says Steffens.

To this inflammable material, Henrik Steffens merely laid the torch of his intelligence.

To govern a life insurance company, Mr. Steffens argued, was just as much "government" as to run a city.

Coming from a man who had seen as much of actual politics as Mr. Steffens, it puzzled me a great deal.

It shames me to think what my friend Lincoln Steffens could have done had he but enjoyed my opportunities.

He became the friend and associate of Steffens and Oehlenschlger, warmly adopting the romantic views about poetry and philosophy.

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