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The upper stage of a porcelian furnace

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Howell Cobb
born Sept. 7, 1815, Jefferson county, Ga., U.S. died Oct. 9, 1868, New York, N.Y. U.S. politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-51, 1855-57), where he promoted Southern interests by supporting the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War. Nevertheless, he also supported the Compromise of 1850, which was favoured by the North. He served as governor of Georgia (1851-53). He supported the presidential candidacy of James Buchanan, who appointed him secretary of the treasury (1857-60). An opponent of Abraham Lincoln, he became a spokesman for secession. He served as chairman of the convention called to organize the Confederacy, then organized his own regiment and led it to the front in the American Civil War
William Howell Masters
Masters and Johnson
William Howell; and Johnson Virginia Eshelman Masters
born Dec. 27, 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died Feb. 16, 2001, Tucson, Ariz. born Feb. 11, 1925, Springfield, Missouri, U.S. U.S. human-sexuality research team. Together (as physician and psychologist, respectively), they founded and codirected the Masters & Johnson Institute in St. Louis. They observed couples having sex under laboratory conditions, using biochemical equipment to record sexual stimulations and reactions. Their book Human Sexual Response (1966) was considered the first comprehensive study of the physiology and anatomy of human sexual activity (see sexual response). They were married in 1971 and continued to collaborate after their divorce in 1993
howel
A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks
howel
To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask
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