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Appleton   /ˈæpəltən/   Listen
Appleton

noun
1.
English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966).  Synonyms: Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton.
2.
A town in eastern Wisconsin.



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"Appleton" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lord Penzance, that aged Judge. The way is short. These pictures of rural life and character were interpolated into the plays of Bacon by his collaborator, William Shakspere, actor, "who prepared the plays for the stage." This brilliant suggestion is borrowed from Mr. Appleton Morgan. {103a} ...
— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang

... critical articles about Mark Twain, which appeared in 'Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science and Art' for July 4,1874, Mr. G. T. Ferris gives an excellent appreciation of his humour. "Of humour in its highest phase," he says, "perhaps Bret Harte may be accounted the most puissant master ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson

... stories, for he would dress it up so. Every day and hour of my Secret Service experience was crowded with events; they came swift one after another; for instance the Election Fraud case of 1864 to which Appleton's Encyclopedia devotes columns, took less than five days to develop; the story would take ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... desires to thank the editors of Appleton's Magazine, Everybody's Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, The New York Times, The Smart Set, and the other publications in which the verses in this collection originally appeared, for their kind ...
— The Rose-Jar • Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

... electric light with a snap, raise the shade, and, propped up on one elbow, watch the little towns go by. They had a wonderful fascination for her, those Middle Western towns, whose very names had a comfortable, home-like sound—Sandusky, Galesburg, Crawfordsville, Appleton—very real towns, with very real people in them. Peering wistfully out through the dusk, she could get little intimate glimpses of the home life of these people as the night came on. In those modest frame houses near the station they need not trouble to pull down the shades as must their cautious ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber


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