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- A township of northeast New Jersey west of New York City; settled c. 1749 by colonists from Connecticut.
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- noun dated The
United States of America . - noun US, historical Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the
Civil War . - noun The
0-10-2 train configuration . Derived from the name of the only U.S. company to use that configuration.
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Items which are not found in the Union Catalogue of non-fiction books, the _Union List of Serials_, or other bibliographical sources are listed in the weekly publication _Book Resources_, which is sent to 39 libraries for checking.
Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958 New Zealand. National Library Service
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Union, to a protracted undermining of the foundation of the Union_, far more dangerous than severing it at one blow.
The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents Karl Nordlund
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The final formation of the preferential union shop as presented to both sides by Mr. Brandeis, Mr. London, and Mr. Cohen, in the Brandeis conference, was this: "The manufacturers can and will declare in appropriate terms their sympathy with the Union, their desire to aid and strengthen the Union, and their agreement that, as between Union and non-union men of equal ability to do the job, the Union men shall be given the preference."
Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915
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Address given at Union Seminary Oct. 31, 1917, published in the _Union
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Constitution, upon the creation of the only sovereign Government in this Union, the _Government of the Union_, she transfers to that sovereign her infant navy; she relinquishes her only attribute of sovereignty -- if such it be -- to the United States, and merges herself with her sister States into that Union of States which has hitherto been our boast and pride, as well as the admiration of the world.
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Union, _Union_, UNION, which is like a bait held out to the mass of the people to lure them on, they will grant to the South the meanest and the most contemptible compromises that the worst slaveholders in the South can require.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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In my heart I undoubtedly wished, that even in party your union should not be dissolved; for that Union would be the strength of both.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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Williams alleged that Nadir, who should have been an impartial mediator, publicly and openly sided with the foreign company by criticising the workers 'union for allegedly agreeing to the termination of 75 workers, as claimed by BCGI, but denied by the Union.
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The vote was taken at a Feb. 1 union meeting, according to a letter from Union President Christian Tobin to the district's three fire commissioners.
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The vote was taken at a Feb. 1 union meeting, according to a letter from Union President Christian Tobin to the district's three fire commissioners.
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