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provost
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    David Korn, vice provost for research at Harvard University, argues that giving patients control over their tissues is shortsighted.  (source)
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    That tendency for newcomers to pick up features of Texas speech has been noted by Guy Bailey, provost of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his wife, Jan Tillery, also a linguist, who have studied recent changes in Texas dialects.  (source)
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    They are dung heaps with village provost minds!†  (source)
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    The Provost turned towards him a still broadly grinning face.†  (source)
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    During the next week or two he accordingly placed himself in such positions about the city as would afford him glimpses of several of the most distinguished among the provosts, wardens, and other heads of houses; and from those he ultimately selected five whose physiognomies seemed to say to him that they were appreciative and far-seeing men.†  (source)
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    Will the provost make them pay for my mirrors?†  (source)
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    It is a consoling idea (let us remark in passing), to think that the death penalty, which three hundred years ago still encumbered with its iron wheels, its stone gibbets, and all its paraphernalia of torture, permanent and riveted to the pavement, the Grève, the Halles, the Place Dauphine, the Cross du Trahoir, the Marché aux Pourceaux, that hideous Montfauçon, the barrier des Sergents, the Place aux Chats, the Porte Saint-Denis, Champeaux, the Porte Baudets, the Porte Saint Jacques, without reckoning the innumerable ladders of the provosts, the bishop of the chapters, of the abbots, of the priors, who had the decree of life and death,—without reckoning the judicial drownings in the river S†  (source)
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    Meade had ordered every soldier to action, even the Provost Guards.†  (source)
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    and going, as he was wont to do every evening, to that charming house situated in the Rue Galilee, in the enclosure of the royal palace, which he held in right of his wife, Madame Ambroise de Lore, to repose after the fatigue of having sent some poor wretch to pass the night in "that little cell of the Rue de Escorcherie, which the provosts and aldermen of Paris used to make their prison; the same being eleven feet long, seven feet and four inches wide, and eleven feet high?"†  (source)
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    His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry figure walking a little stiffly from where a Confederate provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust, where as he passed a voice hissed: "Barn burner!"†  (source)
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    Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of Paris, where one learns that Oudard de Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of Sainte-Geneviève his houses in the Rue Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hôtel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic facts.†  (source)
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    Pretty soon, though, we 'll meet a-plenty of guards an' provost-guards, an' one thing an' another.†  (source)
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    This last honorific belongs, not only to [Pg120] privy councillors, but also to all peers lower than marquesses (those above are /Most Hon./), to Lord Mayors during their terms of office, to the Lord Advocate and to the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow.†  (source)
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    The provost is a cruel man and he doesn't like the 'Punjabis,' as he calls us.  (source)
    provost = head of the military police
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    After Sylvia and Louise got home, a Western Union telegram arrived from the provost marshal general.†  (source)
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    You and your girls will have to appear before the provost marshal tomorrow.†  (source)
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    I have called the Provost Marshal.†  (source)
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    We did it to show our appreciation of his talking the provost guard out of putting us in jail.†  (source)
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    He is third provost of the government police, an officer who speaks several languages and is chief of drug investigations.  (source)
    provost = military police administrator
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    A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal's building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder.†  (source)
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    The provost guard took them up there and if it hadn't been for Ashley's slick tongue, they'd have spent Christmas in jail.†  (source)
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    He spoke not another word to her informally, becoming all business again as he instructed her to write out a memorandum to SS Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Hartjenstein, commanding officer of the SS garrison, directing that a search be made for the candlesticks in the enlisted barracks and that every effort be exerted to apprehend the culprits, who would then be placed in custody of the camp provost marshal for discipline.†  (source)
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    There were hundreds of men skulking in the swamps and the mountains, defying the provost guard to drag them back to the army.†  (source)
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    You were wonderful before the provost marshal today, Mrs. Watling!†  (source)
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    Will you tell your brother that he must appear before the provost marshal tomorrow morning for questioning?†  (source)
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    Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.†  (source)
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