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Faure
President of the French Third Republic (1895-99). A successful industrialist in Le Havre, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (1881). After serving in several cabinet posts, he was elected president of France in an unexpected victory that was a rebuff to the political left. He opposed reopening the case of A. Dreyfus, the dominating issue of his presidency, and his position encouraged agitation from both left and right political factions. He died suddenly, and his funeral was the scene of a confrontation between pro- and anti-Dreyfus groups.


Sabre
U.S. single-seat, single-engine jet fighter manufactured by N. Amer. Aviation, Inc. Built with wings swept back to limit transonic drag as flight speed approached the sound barrier, it could exceed the speed of sound in a dive. The first squadron became operational in 1949, and the fighter saw combat in the Korean War; production ended in 1956. It was 37.5 ft (11.5 m) long and had a wingspan of over 37 ft (11 m). Powered by a series of turbojet engines, its top speed was almost 700 mph (1,100 kph) in level flight. It carried guided missiles, machine guns or cannon in the fuselage, and rockets or bombs under the wings.


sauger
Species (Stizostedion canadense) of pikeperch (family Percidae), carnivorous food and game fishes found in lakes and silty rivers of E N. America. Saugers are slender and darkly mottled. They have two dorsal fins and rarely exceed a length of 12 in. (30 cm) or a weight of about 2 lbs (1 kg).


Saule
In Baltic mythology, the sun goddess who determines the well-being and regeneration of all life on earth. She is said to ride each day through the sky on a chariot with copper wheels, drawn by horses that never tire or sweat. Toward evening, she washes the horses in the sea before retreating into her castle at the end of the sea. The major event in her honor was the midsummer Ligo feast, during which great fires were lit on hills to ward off evil spirits.


Sauveur
Belgian-U.S. metallurgist. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1887, and taught at Harvard Univ. 1899-1939. His microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy. His work in heat treating of metals is regarded as a scientific landmark. He wrote the influential treatise Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel (1912).


score
In music, the parts of all the instruments or singers of an ensemble notated with simultaneous sounds aligned vertically, on a system of parallel staffs arranged one above another. Polyphonic music was being composed for some 600 years before the score came into regular use in the 16th-17th cent. Early examples of scores exist for works of the Notre-Dame school, and early composers may have used temporary scores during composition, perhaps on chalkboards, from which the parts for individual singers were then ...

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