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mast

  • n  a vertical spar for supporting sails
  • n  nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground
  • n  nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
  • n  any sturdy upright pole

  • Flags in Atlanta began flying at half-mast shortly after the news was circulated of her passing.
  • The rooms were hung from a central mast.
  • Both accidents were caused by "mast bumping," which means that the helicopter's blades tilt so badly that they strike the mast supporting them and sometimes slice through the .
News & Articles

  • Mast Therapeutics Prices Public Offering Of 50 Mln. Units
    Mast Therapeutics Prices Public Offering Of 50 Mln. Units
    June 14, 2013 - Nasdaq
  • Mast Therapeutics Prices Public Offering Of Units
    SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mast Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MSTX) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 50,000,000 units, each unit consisting of a fixed combination ...
    June 14, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Tad Mast is Star Press Union summer intern
    Belle Plaine’s Tad Mast is working at The Star Press Union as a summer intern. Mast said, “I went to Belle Plaine Schools from elementary up to high school, even taking my mother Leah Mast’s class. After graduation, I enrolled at Iowa State University as an aerospace engineer. It didn’t take long for me to [...]
    June 11, 2013 - Star Press Union
Quotes

  • Pervez Musharraf in Bloomberg
    We will fly the Pakistan flag at half-mast in her honor,Musharraf said in his condolence message televised on state-run Pakistan Television. "Terrorists are the greatest threat to Pakistan and we won't rest till we defeat terrorism."
  • Hamid Karzai in Times of India
    We announce three days of national mourning over the death of the father of the nation, and the Afghan flag will be at half mast for three days,Karzai added.
  • Bud Selig in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    All of baseball mourns him and I have asked all clubs to observe a moment of silence and fly their flags at half mast in his honor,said Selig.

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