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Jacobs

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Ja·cobs  (jkbz), Aletta 1854-1929.
Dutch physician who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the Netherlands and opened a birth control clinic in Amsterdam in 1882.
Jacobs, Helen Hull 1908-1997.
American tennis player who won the U.S. Open singles title four times (1932-1935) and the Wimbledon singles title in 1936.
Jacobs, Jane 1916-2006.
American-born Canadian writer whose works, including The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), challenge traditional theories and methods of urban planning.
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Noun1.JacobsJacobs - English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs
2.Jacobs - United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
Jane Jacobs
3.Jacobs - Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)
Aletta Jacobs


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Jacobs, will you ask the Prime Minister to come up.
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But one good thing is she ain't going to marry that Henry Jacobs of Markdale.
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