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swarth

 (swôrth)
n.
Variant of sward.
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The BJP leader also dubbed the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party pact as "Swarth ka bandhan" (self-centered alliance).
During this period, JE Hepburn, a very knowledgeable English ornithologist living in Victoria and San Francisco, collected many seabirds and eggs from the central Salish Sea, and his collection is currently housed in the UMZC (Swarth 1926; Kinnear 1931; Jewett and others 1953).
Founded in 2013, CyberX is financially backed by Glilot Capital, Swarth Group and GlenRock Israel.
A pesar de ser una especie comun en Norteamerica, no encontramos reportes publicados sobre coloraciones aberrantes para la especie en Mexico, aunque existen algunos reportes para Estados Unidos de Norteamerica (Ross 1963), por ejemplo para Los Angeles, California (Swarth 1899) y Denver, Colorado (Bergtold 1913) y algunos reportes fotograficos informales en internet.
Today this species is an endemic relic restricted to low-elevation plains, valleys, and foothills within the sonoran and sinaloan biotic provinces of Arizona and northwest Mexico (Swarth, 1929; Dice, 1939, Brown et al., 2012).
Childe Roland repeatedly speculates on the causes of the violence and devastation he sees--"What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves?" (69-70); "what war did they wage [...]?" (129); "What penned them there with all the plain to choose?" (134); "What bad use was that engine for" (140)--and responds with grotesque speculations: "'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents" (71-72); "Toads in a poisoned tank, / Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage" (131-32); "Mad brewage set to work / Their brains, no doubt, like galley-slaves the Turk / Pits for his pastime" (136-38); "to sharpen its rusty teeth of steel" (144).
Source: The Fact Book, Institutional Research Office, Swarth more College (http://www.swarthmore.edu/factbook.xml).