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==Gale Garnett
==William Joseph Schwann, compiler of Schwann record catalogs.
http://www.angelfire.com/pop/kryso/schwann.html
"the first long-playing record catalogue in any country was his 26-page list of 674 LPs in 1949, which he typed himself. Called Schwann Record And Tape Guide from '71, the monthly listed all classical records plus new releases in other categories, a cumulative bumper issue once a year. Over 150,000 out-of-print records passed through about 34 million copies in the first four decades...."

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  • assimilation
  • Beringian
  • concupiscence

"In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason."
  • deliquescent, see juvenile
  • effervescent, see vivacious, lively, animated, high-spirited, bubbly, ebullient, buoyant, sparkling, scintillating, lighthearted, jaunty, happy, jolly, cheery, cheerful, perky, sunny, enthusiastic, irrepressible, vital, zestful, energetic, dynamic, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, peppy, bouncy, upbeat, chirpy, full of beans'
  • frumious, see e.g. 60s band
  • gargantuan ... from Gargantua, the name of a voracious giant in Rabelais' book of the same name (1534)
  • humoresque
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[edit] Notes, references

  1. ^ Description of link Further details not part of link
  2. ^ Rhodes, Richard (1995). Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80400-X