10 LIVROS EM INGLÊS RELACIONADOS COM «PICAYUNISH»
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What's in a Word: Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 ...
Picayunish. S. PANISH adventurers who settled in Florida and Louisiana
established their own currency system. Its smallest unit was the half real, worth
about 6 1/4 cents and known to later Creoles as the “picayune.” Merchants and
traders ...
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Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz ...
By the way, some of the gentlemen who sneered so greatly might learn some
lessons from those picayunish German principalities, which would do them much
good. I recently revisited my native land and saw again some of the forests I had
...
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Crisis and Consciousness
and biological scientists had left the club, leaving only a handful of the most
picayunish philosophers of science and their epigoni. The club has never been
revived because no one had the courage to ask the Popperians to stay home.
Two of ...
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Paying Attention: Focusing Your Congregation on What Matters
Give people something important to fight about, Simmel admonished, or they will
pick something picayunish? It is also the case that groups attend to picayunish
issues in order to keep the larger—more frightening—ones at bay. In church ...
Gary Peluso-Verdend, 2005
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... peanut, peddling, picayunish, piddling, trifling, un- consequential pettish adj
syn IRRITABLE, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish,
waspish, waspy petty adj 1 syn LITTLE 3, casual, inconsiderable, insignificant,
light, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of ...
Thisisaltogether fitting and proper.The mostsearching criticism that is possible
should be brought against every thesis and every scholarly work. Some criticism
was levied against Shannon for “picayunish attention to minutiae.” No“fact” that is
...
Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón, 2010
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The Samuel Gompers Papers: Progress and Reaction in the Age ...
MADE HOT NEWSPAPER STUFF. "From the standpoint of the newspapers it
made good stuff, but from the standpoint of organized labor, it is a scandal. I do
not blame the newspapers for printing it, but it is a picayunish thing for such a
body of ...
Peter J. Albert, Samuel Gompers, Grace Palladino, 2000
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Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies
If this were done, the code would work; if not, if censorship turned "narrow and
picayunish," the producers would destroy the code because there would be no
room to create serious drama.20 Joy's comment went to the heart of the argument
...
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The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
picayune An old term for a nickel, used in New Orleans and other areas.
picayunish Picky. “She sure is picayunish.” pick a crow To find fault with; to have
a bone to pick; also have a crow. “I have a crow to pick with him.” plantation
Negro 119 ...
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Oversight hearings on the Coal mine health and safety act of ...
To the person that is not knowing, ostensibly, it would be a picayunish violation.
Yet, if you go into it in detail, and have the experience and understanding of the
situation, that very picayunish, inconsequential type of violation does take on
great ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards, 1977
10 NOTÍCIAS NAS QUAIS SE INCLUI O TERMO «PICAYUNISH»
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picayunish no contexto das seguintes notícias.
Denis Leary plays a rock has-been in his new FX comedy
By the fifth date, there were picayunish arguments like 'Who drank my Gatorade from the refrigerator?' 'I took one sip, man, I had to swallow some pills!'. «WFSB, jul 15»
Salter: Symbolism beckons from across Mississippi River
The debate is at once emotional, irrational, passionate and picayunish. Social media exacerbates both the scope, pace and tenor of that debate ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, jul 15»
Happy 150th birthday, Detroit Public Library!
The Detroit Public Library is substantial to say the least, and neither mean nor picayunish. Her façade is faced with white Vermont marble and a ... «Detroit Metro Times, mar 15»
The War On Solar Vs. The War On Coal
Whatever direct lobbying influence it has in Washington or in state legislative corridors is picayunish compared to the kind of firepower a ... «CleanTechnica, fev 15»
Norman Lear Doesn't 'Stifle' in New Book
... found Archie's wife Edith facing menopause) while battling the network over things as picayunish as the sound of a toilet flushing off-screen. «Valley News, nov 14»
SADOW: 14 Constitutional Amendments Is Far Too Many
... throwing everything possible into the Constitution rather than by accomplishing these things by statute, and thus picayunish things often have ... «The Hayride, out 14»
TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book
... found Archie's wife Edith facing menopause) while battling the network over things as picayunish as the sound of a toilet flushing off-screen. «The Daily News Online, out 14»
Union Station celebrates survival at 100 years
The city planned to spend just $30,000 for beautification, which station architect Jarvis Hunt dismissed as “a picayunish pittance.” “Why does ... «Kansas City Star, set 14»
Still Standing: The Detroit Public Library
Surely, the Detroit Public Library is neither plain nor picayunish. The impressive three-story structure is built in the Italian Renaissance style. «Detroit Metro Times, ago 14»
Ken Tomlinson, 1944-2014
He was subjected to official inquiries that focused on picayunish details but were actually aimed at driving him out. He endured years of hostility ... «The Weekly Standard, mai 14»
