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Agassiz

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Ag·as·siz  (g-s), Elizabeth Cabot Cary 1822-1907.
American educator who helped organize the predecessor of Radcliffe College (1879) and served as Radcliffe's first president (1894-1899).
Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) 1807-1873.
Swiss-born American naturalist noted for his study of fossil fish and for recognizing from geologic evidence that ice ages had occurred in the Northern Hemisphere.
Agassiz, Lake
A glacial lake of the Pleistocene Epoch extending over present-day northwest Minnesota, northeast North Dakota, southern Manitoba, and southwest Ontario.
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Noun1.AgassizAgassiz - United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Louis Agassiz


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"This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honour and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,' " said Mrs.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast, which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact with vast floating icebergs --I should say, that those rocks must not a little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
He looked very much like Agassiz, and his wife, in her old-fashioned black silk dress, overskirted and tight-sleeved, reminded Alexander of the early pictures of Mrs.
Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context
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