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  • noun United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939)

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Examples

  • Having just come back from a long trip to Ireland, I can assure you that Brendan Kennelly is an extremely popular, remarkable poet.

    brendan kennelly | her laugh « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • Brendan Kennelly is “one of Ireland’s most distinguished and best beloved poets as well as a renowned professor and cultural commentator.”

    brendan kennelly | her laugh « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • Jim Stynes, who represented Melbourne in the 1980s and '90s, won a Brownlow Medal and is now chairman of the club, has labelled Kennelly's desire to return to Ireland "an admirable quality" - knowing how difficult it would be to walk away from a professional career.

    AFL Latest News and Broadband 2009

  • Jim Stynes, who represented Melbourne in the 1980s and '90s, won a Brownlow Medal and is now chairman of the club, has labelled Kennelly's desire to return to Ireland "an admirable quality" - knowing how difficult it would be to walk away from a professional career.

    AFL Latest News and Broadband 2009

  • Jim Stynes, who represented Melbourne in the 1980s and '90s, won a Brownlow Medal and is now chairman of the club, has labelled Kennelly's desire to return to Ireland "an admirable quality" - knowing how difficult it would be to walk away from a professional career.

    AFL Latest News and Broadband 2009

  • "POLITICAL RULES OF THE ROAD," former members of Congress (Bill Frenzel, Lou Frey, Barbara Kennelly and Romano Mazzoli) discuss what worked and what didn't during their years of public service. 7 p.m.,

    D.C. community calendar, Oct. 21 to 28, 2010 Post 2010

  • •Barbara Kennelly:President of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, which is running radio commercials urging lawmakers to "keep your hands off our Social Security."

    Who's who in the fight to reduce the deficit 2011

  • Hudson County was doing its best, Kennelly told me, to accommodate a recent request by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house these detainees.

    Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard 2010

  • Kennelly said the phone issue was a bureaucratic problem that would be resolved.

    Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard 2010

  • Kennelly emphatically denied the claim made by some detainees in the Times article that the leaders of the hunger strike had been put into isolation or transferred to other, more distant detention centers.

    Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard 2010

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