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Dollar sign, denoting ‘all the signatures’; used in collational formulas with a figure indicating number of signed leaves per gathering in a book.
10

10   Reference library

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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A comedy film (1979) starring Dudley Moore as a sexually obsessed middle-aged composer who marks his girls 1

1848

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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The most celebrated and widespread of the 19th-c. European revolutions proved also a crucial turning point in the Italian Risorgimento

1848

1848  

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The most celebrated and widespread of the 19th-c. European revolutions proved also a crucial turning point in the Italian Risorgimento. Beginning with an insurrection in Palermo in January, ...
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)

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a novel by Roger McDonald, was first published in 1979, and won the Age Book of the Year

1915

1915  

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A novel by Roger McDonald, was first published in 1979, and won the Age Book of the Year and the SA biennial literature awards; in 1982 a seven-part adaptation by ...
1919

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Novel by Dos Passos published in 1932. It is the second in the trilogy U.S.A. (collected 1938), including The 42nd Parallel (1930) and The Big Money (1936). Interspersed in the narrative are brief ...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)

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novel by Dos Passos published in 1932. It is the second in the trilogy U.S.A. (collected 1938), including The 42nd Parallel...

1968

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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was the year of protest par excellence. As in 1848, social revolt spread through the peninsula while also taking

1968

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Was the year of protest par excellence. As in 1848, social revolt spread through the peninsula while also taking place in other countries, as movements from below challenged centres of ...
1984

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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A year of the 20th century long regarded as apocalyptic and entered as such in the Oxford English Dictionary.

24/7

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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Every day; all the time. The reference is to something that occurs or is available 24 hours a day, seven

4′ 33′′

4′ 33′′   Reference library

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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A controversial and certainly unusual work by the US composer John Cage (1912–92), scored for any instrument or

404

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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A slang term for someone who is clueless. It derives from the World Wide Web error message ‘404 not found’,

4×4

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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Shorthand for ‘four by four’, as a colloquialism for a four-wheel drive vehicle, i.e. one that provides power directly from

7/7

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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The designation given by the press to the London bombings of 7 July 2005, on the model of 9/11

7:84

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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A radical touring theatre company founded in 1971 by the left-wing British playwright John McGrath (1935–2002). The name

900

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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(1926–9).

Literary journal founded in Rome by Curzio Malaparte and Massimo Bontempelli, though Malaparte quickly lost interest.

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(Novecento)(1926–9).Literary journal founded in Rome by Curzio Malaparte and Massimo Bontempelli, though Malaparte quickly lost interest. It initially appeared as a quarterly in French (it had an ...
9/11

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)

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The predominant shorthand way of referring to September 11 2001, the day on which Al-Qaida launched airborne attacks on the

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