Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Joel S. Berson]

If you grew up in New York City, you knew that the Palisades were the
border of the pale of settlement, on the other side of which the
despised were allowed to live.

Joel

At 10/11/2013 05:48 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Those pictures are worth a thousand words! Wiktionary's first
>definition (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palisade) is basically a
>long stake in the ground and pointed at the top. I was not getting it!
>
>On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan
><geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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> > Torbert is correct:
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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> >> From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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> >> I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
> >> if
> >> I'm wrong.
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> >> Torbert
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> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >>> Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
> >>> Pacific
> >>> Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
> >>> the
> >>> last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?
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