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Libby   /lˈɪbi/   Listen
Libby

noun
1.
United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980).  Synonym: Willard Frank Libby.






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"Libby" Quotes from Famous Books



... the North road that I spent a golden August in the home of Mrs. Libby. Her small gray house was lovingly empaled about the front and sides by snow-ball bushes and magenta French-lilacs, that grew tenderly close to the weather-worn shingles, and back of one sunburnt field, ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich

... Republic that ever existed upon this earth; in the name of all her defenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her soldiers living; in the name of all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Andersonville and Libby, whose sufferings he so vividly remembers, Illinois—Illinois nominates for the next President of this country, that prince of parliamentarians—that leader of ...
— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll



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