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Lawrence

ˈlɔrəns
WordNet
Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence in Oxford
Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence in Oxford
  1. (n) Lawrence
    a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
  2. (n) Lawrence
    English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
  3. (n) Lawrence
    United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
  4. (n) Lawrence
    English actress (1898-1952)
  5. (n) Lawrence
    English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
  6. (n) Lawrence
    Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
  7. (n) Lawrence
    Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
Illustrations
Entrance portal of Saint Lawrence's Church in North Hinksey
Exterior of Saint Lawrence's Church in Besselsleigh
Saint Lawrence with two worshipers. Around eleven scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence. Three lines of Dutch text in an ornamented frame.
Saint Lawrence with two worshipers. Around eleven scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence. Three lines of Dutch text in an ornamented frame.
Linksboven Lawrence J. Tormey, rechtsboven William J. Trimble, linksonder Patrick J. Tully, rechtsonder Marius Turck.
Linksboven Lawrence J. Tormey, rechtsboven William J. Trimble, linksonder Patrick J. Tully, rechtsonder Marius Turck.
Saint Lawrence stands on a cloud; he raises his hands. The grate on which he was tortured is carried by one of the putti surrounding him. Two putti hold a crown over his head.
Saint Lawrence stands on a cloud; he raises his hands. The grate on which he was tortured is carried by one of the putti surrounding him. Two putti hold a crown over his head.
Portrait of the English theologian Lawrence Humphrey. In the margin the name of the person portrayed and a two-line eulogy in Latin.
Portrait of the English theologian Lawrence Humphrey. In the margin the name of the person portrayed and a two-line eulogy in Latin.
Saint Lawrence Justinian, founder of the order of Saint George, in oval. Below the portrait a cartouche with a Latin text about the life of Laurentius. Part of a series of images of the most famous founders of the monastic orders.
Saint Lawrence Justinian, founder of the order of Saint George, in oval. Below the portrait a cartouche with a Latin text about the life of Laurentius. Part of a series of images of the most famous founders of the monastic orders.
Saint Lawrence leans on a grid with a palm branch in his hand. The image is surrounded by a laurel wreath. Below the wreath hangs from ribbons a coat of arms with two crossed keys.
Saint Lawrence leans on a grid with a palm branch in his hand. The image is surrounded by a laurel wreath. Below the wreath hangs from ribbons a coat of arms with two crossed keys.
Usage in the news

Jurors spent seven hours behind closed doors yesterday but did not reach a verdict in the murder of a food deliveryman who died after he was assaulted and robbed outside a Lawrence housing project in July 2009. eagletribune.com

And it's all connected along both sides of the St Lawrence River, Paul Sheaffe said. atertowndailytimes.com

Prescott, ON, Jul 16, 2010 — A new comedy, written by an Ontario playwright, is part of the lineup at the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival this summer -- outdoor theater along the river. northcountrypublicradio.org

Carlton and Arlene Dibble and the daughter of Lawrence and Edith Farnham were united in marriage Sept 19, 1959 at the E.U.B. observertoday.com

Lawrence County Chamber dinner set for Oct 18 at SUNY Potsdam. northcountrynow.com

POTSDAM – The St Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner is set for Thursday, Oct 18 in SUNY Potsdam's Student Union. northcountrynow.com

WASHINGTON, DC – Lawrence M Kimmel has resigned as the CEO of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), joining multichannel marketing agency hawkeye. responsemagazine.com

Time after time, for decades, a Lawrence man - an educator and a Boy Scout volunteer - was accused of sexually assaulting boys. ljworld.com

LAWRENCE— Greater Lawrence Family Health Center has moved its administrative offices to Methuen, a year after Mayor William Lantigua and other state officials were opposed to the idea. eagletribune.com

The vote was six to three with the trio from Lawrence County voting to keep the district going. irontontribune.com

President-elect Barack Obama and Lawrence Summers, Obama's choice as director of the National Economic Council, Chicago, November 24, 2008. nybooks.com

Daybreak on the St Lawrence River is the golden hour in Thousand Island Park, N.Y. cabinlife.com

Updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 10:36 a.m. Members of the Lawrence family wanted their friends to know that they had survived the April 26, 1991, tornado that struck Andover. kansas.com

BRUNSWICK — Lawrence N Caswell, 64, died July 26. theforecaster.net

LAWRENCE, MERCER COUNTIES — The gas and oil drilling industry has its share of watchdogs, including government agencies, environmental groups, landowners and concerned residents. alliednews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker, and Steve Lawrence.
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments

The image in Figure 1 is a superposition of Hα (red) and [O III] λ5007 (green) images obtained through narrowband filters on the 1.2 m telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mt.
Far Ultraviolet Spectra of a Non-Radiative Shock Wave in the Cygnus Loop

This model was considered to approach the limiting cases of the anisotropic GinzburgLandau (AGL) theory (see Ref. and references therein) and the Lawrence-Doniach (LD) model .
Theory of Upper Critical Field without Energy Quantization

Moreover, still in Section 4, we use these decompositions to obtain new ones (Theorem 4.2) that generalize both the Lawrence-Varchenko decomposition (see [V] and [L]) and the Brianchon-Gram formula (see [Br], [G], [So] and [Gr]) (cf.
New polytope decompositions and Euler-Maclaurin formulas for simple integral polytopes

This second formula generalizes both the Lawrence-Varchenko and the Brianchon-Gram relations in the sense that, choosing ε in suitable regions of Rd , we obtain these polytope decompositions.
New polytope decompositions and Euler-Maclaurin formulas for simple integral polytopes

Usage in literature

On leaving Lawrence Enderwood, the previous summer, Rodney had promised to pay him a visit at the first opportunity. "Rodney, the Ranger" by John V. Lane

It was Mr. Lawrence, the owner of the steamer. "Dave Porter At Bear Camp" by Edward Stratemeyer

It has been the host of generations of great seamen from Cook, who navigated Wolfe's fleet up the St. Lawrence, to Nelson. "Westward with the Prince of Wales" by W. Douglas Newton

In 1603 made his first voyage to the St Lawrence, which he ascended as far as the Lachine Rapids. "The Founder of New France" by Charles W. Colby

But Canada was a long way from France and the St Lawrence was larger than the Seine. "The Fighting Governor" by Charles W. Colby

With my crushed foot I sit a prisoner at home, and must leave all to Lawrence. "The Galaxy" by Various

The Champlain and St Lawrence was at first operated only in the summer, when its services as a portage route were most needed. "The Railway Builders" by Oscar D. Skelton

I don't think Lawrence Nestor is very dangerous to adult males, and I doubt that he's armed. "Nor Iron Bars a Cage...." by Gordon Randall Garrett

It's about a fire last night on one of the little islands in the St. Lawrence. "Kidnapped at the Altar" by Laura Jean Libbey

His favorite nephew, Lawrence Lewis, once asked him about his height. "Hero Stories from American History" by Albert F. Blaisdell

Usage in poetry
She leev't tae see the promist lan'—
The icy waves that lash the stran'
Of great St Lawrence rung her knell—
Rest, rest in peace, dear Cousin Bell.
Past the point where Ottawa's current flows-
A league from St. Lawrence golden
sands-
Out in the bay where the wild grass grows
We mark the spot where our ambush stands.
And good Doctor NEWMAN, that praycher unwary,
'Tis he shall preside the Academee School,
And quit the gay robe of ST. PHILIP of Neri,
To wield the soft rod of ST. LAWRENCE O'TOOLE!
Algoma o'er Ontario throws
Fair forest heights and mountain snows;
Strong Erie shakes the orchard plain
At great Niagara's defiles,
And river-gods o'er Lawrence reign,
But Love is king in Huron's isles.
Missouri an' St. Lawrence, Volga an' Thames an' Dee,
All on 'em are varra fine, but niver t' same to me
As rivers 'at are singin' wheer my faither speech prevails,
A-crinklin' an' a-crinklin' doon my forsaken Dales.
A lonely sight for her to see
Was the wilderness town of Ville Marie!
The proud St. Lawrence, with silver foam,
Touched softly the base of our island home,
But frowning forest and tangled wood
Made the land a dreary solitude.