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Перевод: Newfoundland

[существительное]
ньюфаундленд ; собака-водолаз ;
[имя собственное]
Ньюфаундленд [геогр.]

Тезаурус:

1. In addition to carding wire, wire was supplied for fish hooks for the Newfoundland fishery "to a very considerable amount annually".
2. "An NRA bailiff was bitten by a Newfoundland dog and during the Division Three National on the canal this year one man tried to stop anglers and spectators passing through his garden.
3. CANADIAN seal-hunters have decided to spare baby harp and hooded seals in this spring's seal cull on the ice off Newfoundland.
4. Under the tutelage of Sir Wilfred Thomas Grenfell, at the Grenfell Mission, Newfoundland, she produced silk-woven rag rugs which illustrated the fight for survival in Labrador's cold climate.
5. The view is confirmed by the Norwegian company Carino, of Dildo, Newfoundland, the largest processor of seal Furs and skins.
6. Also, as it so happens, in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship, off the coast of Newfoundland, and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington, when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments, etc., also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples, in all parts of the world, would have the right to choose their own form of government.
7. Stocks around Newfoundland collapsed through overhunting after over 30,000 whales were killed between 1953 and 1957.
8. Canada, with which Newfoundland had by this time merged, duly requested and consented; Australia, New Zealand and South Africa merely "assented".
9. After two days out from Newfoundland she had had to alter course for southern Greenland and the Arctic circle, the U-boat menace was so bad.
10. Professor Sharp, of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it, as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children.
11. A "NOXIOUS TWIT" one Newfoundland writer once called Paul Watson.
12. In 1884, sightings of a submarine eruption were reported by the officers of ships, right in the middle of the ocean, half-way between Ireland and Newfoundland.
13. EIGHTY years ago tomorrow, on the night of 14/15 April 1912, the "unsinkable" passenger liner Titanic, steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage, ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean, taking more than 1,500 souls with her.