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Stanford

[ stan-ferd ]

noun

  1. (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
  2. a male given name.


Stanford

/ ˈæԴə /

noun

  1. StanfordSir Charles (Villiers)18521924MAnglo-IrishMUSIC: composerMUSIC: conductor Sir Charles ( Villiers ). 1852–1924, Anglo-Irish composer and conductor, who as a teacher at the Royal College of Music had much influence on the succeeding generation of composers: noted esp for his church music, oratorios, and cantatas
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At Stanford, she majored in biology and received a master’s degree in health services research.

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Sure, some GMs are prominent sports figures — witness Andrew Luck at Stanford and Stephen Curry at Davidson — but logging long days on campus would seem a key part of the job description.

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The Stanford commit has qualified for the U.S.

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Other vaccine-preventable diseases would also probably pop up in the coming quarter-century — 190 cases of rubella, 18 of poliomyelitis, eight of diphtheria, according to the Stanford team’s models.

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Levitsky attended Stanford and then UC Berkeley, and likely would have spent his career in relative obscurity, writing academic tomes about political parties in Argentina.

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