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Goddard   /gˈɑdərd/   Listen
Goddard

noun
1.
United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).  Synonym: Robert Hutchings Goddard.






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"Goddard" Quotes from Famous Books



... considered important. Goddard[33] gives us a brief picture of the usual proceedings: "The Hopi baby is first washed and dressed by its paternal grandmother or by one of her sisters. On the day of its birth she makes four marks with corn meal on the four walls of the room. She erases one of these on the fifth, tenth, ...
— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett

... authority by more vigorous attacks than ever on the French fortresses in India. He sent one body of troops against Chandemagore, their chief stronghold in Bengal; another against Pondicherry, their head-quarters in the south of Hindostan; while a third, under Colonel Goddard, defeated the two Mahratta chieftains Scindia and Holkar, and took ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole



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