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  • n  a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold

  • Opposite In creating his most celebrated character, Harry Angstrom, Updike (picture with his sone in 1966) imagined a person unlike himself.
  • A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones.
  • I be sone sayin' me piece, now, engage away me buckos, bu' I be reservin' th' ri' t' call "go f yerself" at it when I be seein' it.
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  • Jimmy Calderwood in Sportinglife.com
    Just as a precaution, Sone is going for a scan later today,Calderwood said. "We are hoping it is not too bad. He might miss Saturday and he might be out for two weeks but we will have to see. It's nothing serious. Andy's looked a sore one...

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