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Columbia

noun

A North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring. Synonym: Columbia River.

A town in west central Tennessee.

Capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina. Synonym: capital of South Carolina.

A university town in central Missouri.

A university in New York City. Synonym: Columbia University.

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... the Spaniards sometimes came to the mouth of the Kaw River, and even on the Platte. So there we were, overlapping Spain to the west. And up above, Great Britain was overlapping our claims to the valley of the Columbia and even part of this Missouri Valley. You can see how ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough

... at last in the streets above Columbia University. The captain of the airship watching this quarter seems to have stooped to lasso and drag from its staff a flag hoisted upon Morgan Hall. As he did so a volley of rifle and revolver shots was fired from the upper windows of the huge apartment building that stands between the ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... to tender my grateful acknowledgments to my former Professors, Calvin Thomas and William H. Carpenter of Columbia University, and Camillo von Klenze and Starr Willard Cutting of the University of Chicago, under whose stimulating direction and never-failing assistance my graduate studies ...

— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun

... likenesses of their intended husbands and absent friends, which has astonished thousands during her travels in Europe. She will leave the city in a very short time. 76. Broome Street, between Cannon and Columbia. Gentlemen ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 • Various

... was a Turk. She was born in Bulgaria of Greco-Russo-Bulgar parents, educated at Roberts College and Columbia University, New York, married to a drummer in the shredded-codfish business, divorced—on what grounds I don't know—divorced him, though, I believe came out here as war worker-teacher in refugee camps in Egypt—made the acquaintance ...

— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy

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