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Dix

noun

United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887). Synonyms: Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix.

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... ensuite qu'on est autorise a modifier le texte de l'Histoire, partout ou ces regles y sont violees. (D'apres un calcul approximatif, on peut croire que le copiste du quatorzieme siecle a viole ces regles plus de quatre mille fois et qu'il les respectait peut-etre une fois sur dix.)" ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... at what Dorothea Dix has done, single-handed, single-mouthed, in asylums and before legislatures. Women have sat on thrones, and governed kingdoms well, when that was the station in life to which God called them. If Victoria of England has been anything, she ...

— Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, - 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, And January 25, 1887 • Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.

... of the Southern members of the Cabinet had compelled Mr. Buchanan to fill their places, General John A. Dix, the new Secretary of the Treasury, sent Mr. W. Hemphill Jones, a amiable old clerk, who wore a sandy wig, to New Orleans, with instructions to secure, if possible, the bullion in the United States Mint there. Soon after Mr. Jones had arrived at New Orleans, ...

— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... l'Auteur.—C'est mon intention irrevocable de finir ma vingtaine de romans sur la famille OGWASH, et je compte avec plasir offrir les dix-neuf a suivre ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various

... to be of Dix Island granite, and the dimensions of the four fronts are severally as follows: the northerly side (toward the City Hall) is about 300 feet; the Broadway and Park Row fronts, respectively, 270 feet; and ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

Words linked to "Dix" : reformer, social reformer, meliorist, crusader, reformist, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Dorothy Dix, Dorothea Dix