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Research Results For 'Babbitt'

ART BABBITT

Art Babbitt was an American animator. He was born in 1907 and died in 1992. He animated for Disney, working on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Fantasia as well as others, and also worked for Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers.
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BRUCE E. BABBITT

Bruce E Babbitt was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Arizona from 1978 until 1987.
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MILTON BYRON BABBITT

Milton Byron Babbitt is an American composer. He was born in 1916 at Philadelphia. He studied with the American composer Roger Sessions and joined the Princeton University faculty in 1938, and in 1959 he helped found the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In 1982 he was awarded a Pulitzer Special Citation for his life's work. His works include 'Philomel' written in 1964, for soprano and magnetic tape, and 'Concerti for Violin, Small Orchestra', and the 1976 Synthesized Tape.
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ANTIFRICTION METAL

Antifriction metal is a name given to various alloys of tin, zinc, copper, antimony, lead, etc, which oppose little resistance to motion, with great resistance to the effects of friction, so far as concerns the wearing away of the surfaces of contact. Babbitt metal consisting of 50 parts tin, 5 parts of antimony and 1 part copper is one of them.
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BABBITT METAL

Babbitt metal is an antifriction metal alloy originally based on tin, antimony, and copper (50 parts tin, 5 parts of antimony and 1 part copper) but now often including lead. Various types of Babbitt alloy are produced, and used mainly in bearings. Babbitt metal was invented with the view of as far as possible obviating friction in the bearings of journals, cranks, axles, etc by Isaac Babbit, a goldsmith of Taunton, Massachusetts.
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BABBITT

The USS Babbitt was an American flush deck type destroyer of 1090 tons displacement launched in 1918. The USS Babbitt was powered by four oil-burning boilers providing a top speed of 35 knots. She carried a complement of 122 and was armed with four 4 inch guns; one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun and twelve 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in four triple arrangements.
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BABBITT

Babbitt is a city in St Louis County, Minnesota, USA.
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