Indianapolis
[,indiə'næpəlis]
Definition
(noun.) the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race.
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Examples
- I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Stanton dismissed the special train that had brought him to Indianapolis, and accompanied me to Louisville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One day we went down to the round-house of the Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad and connected up the long wash-tank in the room with the coil, one electrode being connected to earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A little later, when Edison was employed as operator in the railroad office at Indianapolis, he practiced receiving newspaper reports in his spare hours at night. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Edison did not stay long in Indianapolis, however, resigning in February, 1865, and proceeding to Cincinnati. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- About 1 o'clock the operator at the Indianapolis office got hold of an operator on a wire which ran from Indianapolis to Louisville along the railroad, who happened to come into his office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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