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39%8 Lamb or Bacon
noun

• a writer of literary works

37%5 Francis ____, essayist or painter
noun

• back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

• English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

• English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

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New York Times22 Feb 1987 Down 86 FRANCIS
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