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(Encyclopedia) Silver Spring, uninc. city (1990 pop. 76,046), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a major suburban office center and has a large naval ordnance laboratory, s...

(Encyclopedia) Chevy Chase chĕvˈē [key], town (2020 pop. 10,176), Montgomery co., W central Md., a reside...

(Encyclopedia) Conshohocken kŏnˌshəhŏkˈən [key], borough (2020 pop. 8,039), Montgomery co., SE Pa., on the ...

(Encyclopedia) Kettering, city (1990 pop. 60,569), Montgomery co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Dayton; settled c.1812, inc. 1952. Electric motors, transportation equipment, and machinery are manufactured, and there are num...

(Encyclopedia) Tallapoosa, river, 268 mi (431 km) long, rising in NW Ga. and flowing SW through E Ala.; joins the Coosa River near Montgomery, Ala., to form the Alabama River. Martin, Thurlow, and Yates dams provide...

(Encyclopedia) Radford, city (1990 pop. 15,940), surrounded by but independent of Pulaski and Montgomery counties, SW Va., on the New River; settled 1756, inc. as a city 1892. Motors, iron castings, clothing and tex...

(Encyclopedia) Bryn Mawr brĭn mär [key], uninc. town (2020 pop. 3,708), Montgomery co., SE Pa., a resident...

(Encyclopedia) Crawfordsville, city (2020 pop. 16,306), seat of Montgomery co., W central Ind.; inc. 1866. It is the trading center of an agricultural and dairy region...

(Encyclopedia) New York Times Company v. Sullivan, case decided in 1964 by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1960, the Times ran a fundraising advertisement signed by civil-rights leaders that criticized, among other thing...

(Encyclopedia) deists dēˈĭsts [key], term commonly applied to those thinkers in the 17th and 18th cent. who held that the course of nature sufficiently demonstrates the existence of God. For them formal religion ...