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- noun obsolete
Prussia .
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P.S. Excellent invocation of the term Spruce Goose.
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The organization began studying what they call the Spruce Pond Sub - Watershed - land from Fisher Street to Ribero Drive that includes Mine Brook - about a year and a half ago.
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All Answers from kolbster wrote 41 weeks 4 days ago get out of the river and head to the small creeks, there are some great creeks in Spruce Pine NC about 45 min from Ashville, i have fished all around Spruce Pine and had very good luck, i live about 10 miles form there.
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And If you prefer to eat out, Sitka and Spruce is moving in too.
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Wrather, who produced TV shows like The Lone Ranger and Lassie, went on to spruce up Howard Hughes' mammoth plane, dubbed the Spruce Goose, as well as the Queen Mary, both in Long Beach.
Brad Schreiber: Mid-Century Modern Survives in Palm Springs Brad Schreiber 2011
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Wrather, who produced TV shows like The Lone Ranger and Lassie, went on to spruce up Howard Hughes' mammoth plane, dubbed the Spruce Goose, as well as the Queen Mary, both in Long Beach.
Brad Schreiber: Mid-Century Modern Survives in Palm Springs Brad Schreiber 2011
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In the late 1980s, The Walt Disney Company purchased the company that owned the attraction, which at the time, included the plane built and flown by Howard Hughes that came to be known as the Spruce Goose.
Former Disney Property Continues to Struggle | The Disney Blog 2009
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Among the vines sits the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum home of the Howard Hughes monster called the Spruce Goose -- the large wooden plane that flew only once.
Vineyards 2007
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President George W. Bush's more coal-friendly approach, has threatened to halt or sharply scale back the project known as Spruce 1.
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Speyer did not really want: the huge hangar where in the 1940s Howard Hughes built the 200-ton birch wood flying boat that came to be known as the Spruce Goose.
NYT > Home Page By TERRY PRISTIN 2010
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