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The monumental Victorian houses of Nob Hill — home of the “nobs,” possibly a derivation of “nabobs” — burned down in the 1906 earthquake, and only the imposing brownstone house of James Flood, now the very exclusive Pacific Union Club, survived.
(b) The term element itself, while unquestionably from Latin—Cicero gives it as a gloss for Greek stoicheion, series ( stoichiometry is the calculation of relative quantities of reagents and their end-products in a chemical reaction)—is of obscure derivation.
Brooke's derivation of machete from Spanish macho `male' is a folk etymology: the two words are unconnected and the correct etymology may be found on pp. 746-750 of vol.
All five trials gave or allowed the calculation of six-hour TOTPAR and the derivation of the number of patients with at least 50%maxTOTPAR.
The derivation of malarkey , a term still frequently heard in New York, is nowhere to be found.